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The New Bolero
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From the SXSW website...
loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies, directed by Steve Cantor and Matthew Galkin (World Premiere). An engrossing, uncompromising document of the difficult – yet successful – Pixies reunion tour.
For nine days in March, the SXSW Film Festival screens the best in new independent film from around the world. SXSW has gained accolades for the quality of our programming, which focuses on both emerging talent and cinematic greats. With over 180 films, including innovative narrative and documentary features; narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental shorts; music videos; and midnight films, there’s plenty to satisfy every film lover. consideration. |
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Carl
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http://cinematical.com/2006/01/02/pixies-doc-to-screen-at-sxsw/
Pixies doc to screen at SXSW
Posted Jan 2nd 2006 4:32PM by Karina Longworth
Filed under: Documentary, Independent, Music & Musicals, SXSW, Festival Reports
The powers that be behind the SXSW Film Festival have let loose a brief, early glimpse at this year's program, and so far, so good. A big highlight looks to be the world premiere of LoudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies, Steve Cantor and Matthew Galkin's documentary on last year's most unlikely reunion tour. Also worth looking forward to: Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page, and a retrospective dedicated to the film work of Kris Kristofferson (which we can only hope includes Barbra Streisand's 70s vanity remake of A Star is Born). More films will be announced early next month. In related news, the early lineup for the music festival has hit the SXSW homepage as well. Four words: Echo and the Bunnymen. Once again, SXSW has made Karina Longworth a very happy girl.
[via GreenCine Daily]
http://daily.greencine.com/
January 02, 2006
SXSW. 1st peek at lineup.
The SXSW site is offering a first peek at the film festival lineup, announcing four premieres, ranging from the world kind to the regional kind:
James Marsh's The King, with Gael García Bernal and William Hurt.
Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin 's loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies.
Mary Harron 's The Notorious Bettie Page, with Gretchen Mol and David Strathairn.
Ron Mann's Tales of the Rat Fink.
"The complete film festival lineup will be unveiled in early February," reads the notice. "The films will join an already announced Kris Kristofferson Retrospective, a restored print of Eagle Pennell's influential The Whole Shootin' Match, competition features, shorts, special screenings, and more!"
Posted by dwhudson at 09:37 AM | Comments (0)
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=festivals&Id=1914
SXSW 2006 PREMIERES ANNOUNCED
(2006-01-03)
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival has announced a preliminary list of premieres in the 2006 edition, scheduled for March 10-18 in Austin, Texas. This includes the North American Premiere of 'A Prairie Home Companion,' directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Garrison Keillor, as the festival's Opening Night Film.
'A Prairie Home Companion' is Altman's screen adaptation of the popular radio program by Garrison Keillor. The cast includes Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin. Picturehouse will release the film in June. It will debut at the Paramount Theater on March 10.
Other SXSW 2006 premieres announced today include:
- 'The King,' directed by James Marsh (North American Premiere). Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt co-star in this tale of family turmoil in small town Texas.
- 'loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies,' directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin (World Premiere). An engrossing, uncompromising document of the difficult - yet successful - Pixies reunion tour.
- 'The Notorious Bettie Page,' directed by Mary Harron (U.S. Premiere). Gretchen Mol leads a talented cast, including David Strathairn and Lili Taylor, as legendary pin-up girl Bettie Page in this acclaimed biopic.
- 'Tales of the Rat Fink,' directed by Ron Mann (World Premiere). In this fun and comprehensive documentary, John Goodman narrates a journey through the cult status and international influence of hot-rod designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, creator of the popular "Rat Fink" character.
MIDNIGHT SELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT!
Acclaimed French action film, "District 13," will be part of the Round Midnight program at SXSW 2006. The film won raves at the Toronto Film Festival and will be released in the U.S. during Spring 2006.
The complete film festival lineup, including competition films, will be unveiled in early February. The SXSW Film Panels take place March 11-14, and will include discussions, workshops, and one-on-one interviews with industry figures such as Variety editor Peter Bart and author/actor Henry Rollins.
For more info, visit the SXSW website.
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2006/01/03/narnia_outduels_kong/
Fest slates 'Companion'
Director Robert Altman's screen adaptation of Garrison Keillor's radio program, ''A Prairie Home Companion," will open this year's South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. The movie, featuring Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, and Keillor, will make its US premiere March 10, festival organizers said yesterday. The film is scheduled to arrive in theaters in June. The festival, scheduled to run through March 18, also will feature the US premiere of ''The Notorious Bettie Page," starring Gretchen Mol as the famed pinup girl; ''loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies," a documentary about the Pixies' reunion tour; and ''The King," a family drama set in Texas. |
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10685992/
‘Prairie Home Companion’ to open SXSW
Robert Altman's adaptation of radio program to kick off Austin festival
Updated: 8:57 p.m. ET Jan. 2, 2006
NEW YORK - "A Prairie Home Companion," director Robert Altman's screen adaptation of the longtime Garrison Keillor radio program, will open this year's South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas.
The movie, featuring Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan and Keillor himself, will make its North American premiere on March 10, festival organizers said Monday. The film is scheduled to arrive in theaters in June.
"I can't think of a more perfect opening night film than 'A Prairie Home Companion,'" said festival producer Matt Dentler. "Not only do you have great masters like Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor involved, but it's also a celebration of entertainment and the creative spirit."
The South by Southwest film festival, scheduled to run through March 18, also will feature the United States premiere of "The Notorious Bettie Page," starring Gretchen Mol as the famed pin-up girl; "loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies," a documentary about the rock band the Pixies' reunion tour; and "The King," starring William Hurt and Gael Garcia Bernal in a family drama set in small-town Texas.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/01/3makers.html
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
SXSW film opener picked
"A Prairie Home Companion," director Robert Altman's screen adaptation of the longtime Garrison Keillor radio program, will open this year's South by Southwest film festival.
The movie, featuring Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan and Keillor himself, will make its North American premiere March 10, festival organizers said Monday. The film is scheduled to arrive in theaters in June.
"I can't think of a more perfect opening night film than 'A Prairie Home Companion,' " festival producer Matt Dentler said. "Not only do you have great masters like Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor involved, but it's also a celebration of entertainment and the creative spirit."
The South by Southwest film festival, scheduled to run through March 18, also will feature the U.S. premiere of "The Notorious Bettie Page," starring Gretchen Mol as the famed pinup girl; "loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies," a documentary about the rock band the Pixies' reunion tour; and "The King," starring William Hurt and Gael Garcia Bernal in a family drama set in small-town Texas.
http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2006/01/sxsw_06_to_open.html
SXSW '06 To Open With Robert Altman's "Prairie"
by Eugene Hernandez (January 2, 2006)
The 2006 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference & Festival in Austin, TX will open on March 10th with the North American premiere of Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion," organizers announced Monday. The film features an all-star cast including Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin. The festival will conclude on March 18th.
"Prairie" was acquired by Picturehouse back in October and is described as a fictionalized look at preparations for what could be the final episode of Garrison Keillor's legendary radio program, exploring the fallout over a big corporation buying the theater home of the weekly radio show. According to Picturehouse, "As passions erupt, secrets emerge and a mysterious stranger lurks in the shadows, the vigilant stage manger must hold it all together since the 'show must go on'."
Set for a June release, the film was written by Altman and Keillor.
"I can't think of a more perfect Opening Night Film than A Prairie Home Companion," said SXSW Film Festival Producer Matt Dentler, in a statement. "Not only do you have great masters like Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor involved, but it's also a celebration of entertainment and the creative spirit."
Among the other premieres set for SXSW '06 are the world premiere of Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin's "loudQUIETloud: A Film About The Pixies," described by festival organizers as a look at the band's recent reunion tour. Another world premiere will be Ron Mann's "Tales of the Rat Fink," a documentary about Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, creator of the popular "Rat Fink" character. It is narrated by John Goodman.
Also set is the North American premiere of James Marsh's "The King" starring Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt, and the U.S. premiere of Mary Harron's "The Notorious Bettie Page" starring Gretchen Mol as the legendary pin-up. The SXSW Film Conference will include an array of panels and discussions from March 11 - 14. Variety editor Peter Bart and actor/author Henry Rollins are already set to participate in this year's conference.
The complete lineup for the 2006 SXSW Film Festival will be announced next month. Eight features are expected to screen in each of the narrative and doc competitions, while 80 features and 80 shorts are planned for the 2006 event.
The South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) is now in its twentieth year, set for March 15 - 19, 2006. The SXSW Film Conference and SXSW Interactive Festival are both in their thirteenth year.
[For more information, please visit the SXSW website.]
Eugene Hernandez is the Editor-in-Chief of indieWIRE
( posted on Jan 2, 2006 at 02:38PM | filed under Festival News, Lead Story ) |
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Daisy Girl
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Posted - 01/04/2006 : 17:22:51
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| Cool! Anyone know how it's going to be released to other theatres in the US?? Or does it have to run the film festival circuit before it's relased? |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/01/03/SXSWfilms.html
Robert Altman film to launch South by Southwest film fest
Last Updated Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:27:10 EST
CBC Arts
Robert Altman's screen adaptation of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor's radio program, will open the 2006 South by Southwest film festival.
The movie features Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan and Keillor, himself. After its North American premiere at the festival, it will head to theatres in June.
"I can't think of a more perfect opening night film than A Prairie Home Companion," said festival producer Matt Dentler. "Not only do you have great masters like Robert Altman and Garrison Keillor involved, but it's also a celebration of entertainment and the creative spirit."
Other premieres include: LoudQuietLoud: A Film About Pixies , a documentary about the reunion tour of rock band the Pixies; The King, starring William Hurt and Gael Garcia Bernal in a family drama set in small-town Texas; and Canadian Ron Mann's Tales of the Rat Fink, narrated by John Goodman.
Mann, an award-winning filmmaker, is well-known for his documentaries, including 1999's Grass, a humourous historical look at recreational marijuana use, and 2003's Go Further, which followed actor and activist Woody Harrelson as he took to the road for his "Simple Organic Living Tour."
Tales of the Rat Fink is a journey through the cult status and influence of hot-rod designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
The festival's roster of films will be announced in February.
The SXSW film festival screens the best in new independent film from around the world, with a lineup of more than 180 feature films, documentaries, experimental shorts and music videos. |
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Cool! Anyone know how it's going to be released to other theatres in the US?? Or does it have to run the film festival circuit before it's relased?
I think they show these things at festivals in hopes of picking up a distribution deal--either for a theatrical release or to one of the pay channels like Showtime or Sundance. So i don't think it's necessarily going to leap from SXSW to any of our nearby multiplexes. It may be a while still. |
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http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2006/02/sxsw_film_festi.html
SXSW Film Festival Unveils Line Up; "Prairie" and "Dreamz" Bookend Event
by Brian Brooks (February 6, 2006)
The South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) has unveiled its full lineup, including 50 world premieres and 115 features slated for this year's event taking place March 10 - 18. As previously announced, SXSW will open with the North American premiere of Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion," an adaptation of the popular radio program by Garrison Keillor.
The festival's "Spotlight Premieres" section will include features "Al Franken in God Spoke," Tom Caltabiano's "95 Miles to Go" featuring Ray Romano, "The Life of Reilly" spotlighting actor Charles Nelson Reilly, Mark Rydell's "Even Money" starring Kim Basinger and Ray Liotta, a story about three gambling addicts, "The King," starring Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt and Billy Kent's comedy, "The Oh in Ohio," starring Parker Posey and Paul Rudd.
Closing the film festival section of SXSW March 18 is Paul Weitz's satire "American Dreamz" with Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and Mandy Moore. The film is based on the popular television show of the same name.
"We considered many more films this year, and I think the program stands among our best," said SXSW Film Festival producer Matt Dentler in a statement. "Our job was harder than before, but it also means we saw a better array of films than before."
The full lineup follows. The descriptions are provided by the festival:
Spotlight Premieres
95 Miles to Go Dir: Tom Caltabiano; Cast: Ray Romano, Tom Caltabiano, Roger Lay, Jr. Sitcom star Ray Romano documents his unpredictable stand-up comedy tour through Middle America. (WORLD PREMIERE)
A Prairie Home Companion Dir: Robert Altman; Cast: Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan. An adaptation of the popular radio program by Garrison Keillor, featuring an all-star cast. This is the Opening Night Film for SXSW 2006. (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)
Al Franken in God Spoke Dir: Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus; A cinema verite pursuit of Al Franken, shot over the course of two years, the film follows the former SNL writer turned political attack dog from his feud with Bill O'Reilly to the 2004 Presidential election. (WORLD PREMIERE)
American Dreamz Dir: Paul Weitz; Cast: Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Marcia Gay Harden, Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe. A satire about American identity, set around a popular television singing contest called "American Dreamz."
Brothers of the Head Dir: Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe; Cast: Luke Treadway, Harry Treadway, Tania Emery, Sean Harris, Bryan Dick. The feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe, who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band. (U.S. PREMIERE)
The Cassidy Kids Dir: Jacob Vaughan; Cast: Kadeem Hardison, Anne Ramsay, Judah Friedlander. A group of adults reunite when their real-life murder mystery becomes a nostalgic kids' show success. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Even Money Dir: Mark Rydell; Cast: Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Nick Cannon, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, Carla Gugino, Grant Sullivan, Jay Mohr. Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Fired! Dir: Chris Bradley and Kyle LaBrache; Featuring: Annabelle Gurwitch, David Cross, Illeana Douglas, Bob Odenkirk, Jeff Garlin, Andy Dick. After being fired by Woody Allen, Gurwitch set out - with the help of some famous faces - to look at what it means to be both hired and fired as an American worker in the global economy. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Gretchen Dir: Steve Collins; Cast: Courtney Davis, John Merriman, Stephen Root. A misunderstood teen-age girl faces a serious of misadventures on her way to finding love, and her father. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Heavens Fall Dir: Terry Green; Cast: Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Anthony Mackie, Leelee Sobieski. Based on the "Scottsboro Boys" trial of the 1930s, a lawyer meets obstacles and injustice while defending the accused. (WORLD PREMIERE)
The King Dir: James Marsh; Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Pell James, William Hurt. A small-town family is torn apart by tradition, romance, and murder. (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)
The Life of Reilly Dir: Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson. Popular character actor and TV staple, Charles Nelson Reilly, delivers the final performance of his touching and hilarious one-man show. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Nobelity Dir: Turk Pipkin. Pipkin travels the world chatting with living Nobel Prize winners, to get their perspective on the world today. (WORLD PREMIERE)
The Notorious Bettie Page Dir: Mary Harron; Cast: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour. The story of Bettie Page, uber-successful 1950's pin-up model, one of the first sex icons in America, and the target of a Senate investigation. (U.S. PREMIERE)
The Oh in Ohio Dir: Billy Kent; Cast: Parkey Posey, Paul Rudd, Mischa Barton, Danny DeVito, and Liza Minnelli. Priscilla Chase seemed to have everything going for her with one small private exception.... She never thought much of sex. When her husband unexpectedly leaves her to regain his manhood she embarks on a wild journey that leads her to satisfaction and love in the most unlikely place. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Patriot Act Dir: Jeffrey Ross. A stand-up comedian documents his trip to Iraq when he and other entertainers make their way abroad for a USO tour. (U.S. PREMIERE)
Tales of the Rat Fink Dir: Ron Mann; Cast: In this fun and comprehensive history, John Goodman narrates a journey through the cult status and international influence of hot- rod designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, creator of the popular "Rat Fink" character. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Who the $#%& is Jackson Pollock? Dir: Harry Moses. A documentary following the adventures of a 73 year-old truck driver, after she buys what some believe is a Jackson Pollock painting, for five dollars at a thrift shop. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Documentary Feature Competition
Autumn's Eyes Dir: Paola Mendoza & Gabriel Noble. This is life through the eyes of a 3-year-old girl as she tries to navigate her way through a life of poverty, her teenage mother's incarceration, and foster care. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Darkon Dir: Andrew Neel & Luke Meyer. A serious look into the bizarre and fascinating world of Darkon, a full-contact medieval fantasy group, active in the Baltimore area since 1985. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Jam Dir: Mark Woollen. The story of the American Roller Derby League, a group of over-the- hill roller derby skaters from the '50s, '60s, and '70s who are determined to reclaim their former glory. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Maxed Out Dir: James Scurlock. A disturbing and hilarious glimpse at what makes Americans addicted to credit card debt. (WORLD PREMIERE)
My Country, My Country Dir: Laura Poitras. The agonizing predicament and gradual descent of one man caught in the middle of the tragic contradictions of US occupation in Iraq and its project to spread democracy in the Middle East. (WORLD PREMIERE)
OilCrash Dir: Basil Gepke & Ray McCormack. A stylish and sobering exploration of the dwindling oil resources of the world, and what the globe's experts predict for the future. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Shadow Company Dir: Nick Bicanic. A candid look at the world of private militaries around the world, as corporations increasingly hire modern-day mercenaries to fight wars. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Summercamp! Dir: Bradley Beesley & Sarah Price. Within the subculture of the unusual Swift Nature Camp, the filmmakers capture raw emotions through rituals, homesickness, and counselor mutiny. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Narrative Feature Competition
Americanese Dir: Eric Byler; Cast: Chris Tashima, Allison Sie, Joan Chen, Kelly Hu, Ben Shenkman, Sab Shimono. After a break-up, two adults find themselves locked between racial identity, meddling friends, and mismatched ideals. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Bondage Dir: Eric Allen; Cast: Michael Angarano, Illeana Douglas, Griffin Dunne, Eric Lange, Evan Ellingson, Mae Whitman. An Orange County youth escapes an abusive home only to find himself forced to survive a psychiatric ward. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Dance Party, USA Dir: Aaron Katz; Cast: Anna Kavan, Cole Pensinger, Ryan White, Sarah Bing. Two aimless teenagers connect with each other at a 4th of July party and go their separate ways when a dark secret is revealed. (WORLD PREMIERE)
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael Dir: Thomas Clay; Cast: Danny Dyer, Lesley Manville, Dan Spencer, Ryan Winsley, Charles Mnene. A group of English teenagers try to transcend the dull and bleak surroundings of a country at war, with some very disturbing activities. (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)
Inner Circle Line Dir: Eunhee Cho; Cast: Eunyong Yongkun, Yumi Jung, Soyun Jang. A woman and a man, who share the same name, lie at the center of a circle of young adults in Seoul whose intertwined relationships cause them to revolve through cycles of love, loss, and rebirth. (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)
The Last Romantic Dir: Aaron & Adam Nee; Cast: Aaron Nee, James Urbaniak, Shalom Harlow, Jane Bradbury. Fancying himself a poet, Calvin Wizzig moves to New York, with aspirations of making his mark on the world. Unfortunately, the world is not particularly keen on having marks made on it. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Live Free or Die Dir: Andy Robin & Gregg Kavet; Cast: Aaron Stanford, Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Rapaport, Judah Friedlander, Kevin Dunn. A would-be criminal finds himself in real trouble when he teams up with a dim-witted friend and attempts to prove his chops as a local outlaw. (WORLD PREMIERE)
LOL Dir: Joe Swanberg; Cast: Kevin Bewersdorf, Joe Swanberg, C. Mason Wells, Tipper Newton, Brigid Reagan. Alex, Tim, and Chris all view the women in their lives through the dimensions of a computer screen or the lens of a camera-phone, but they must learn to balance their online fantasies and addictions with the demands of real life. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Emerging Visions
Apart From That Dir: Jennifer Shainin & Randy Walker; Cast: Kathleen McNearney, Kyle Conyers, Toan Le, Tony Cladoosby, Alice Ellingson, Michelle Sheiman. A Native American road striper, a student beautician, a Vietnamese banker, his adopted son and an elderly exhibitionist attempt to find their footing in a world of miscommunication and unmet expectations. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Bata-ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future Dir: Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie. A bittersweet record of a road trip (with many former employees) to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in the Czech Republic. (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas Dir: Scott Lew; Cast: Patrick Fugit, Olivia Wilde. A college comedy about the misadventures of Bickford Shmeckler, a brilliant but troubled freshman whose prized journal full of "cool ideas" is stolen.
Champions Dir: David Wike; Cast: Kevin Corrigan, Ebon Moss Bachrach, Clea DuVall, David Wike. A comedy about three men who leave town to spend a weekend in the countryside at the house of an eccentric uncle. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Cocaine Angel Dir: Michael Tully; Cast: Damian Lahey, Kelly Forester, Brenda Benfield. A charming young man, rendered weary by years of substance abuse, reaches the end of the line one unforgettable week in the harsh, suffocating climate of Jacksonville, Florida. (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)
Cruel and Unusual Dir: Janet Baus, Dan Hunt, and Reid Williams. An unflinching look at the lives of male-to-female transsexual women in men's prisons in the United States. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Danny Roane: First Time Director Dir: Andy Dick; Cast: Andy Dick, Sara Rue, Bob Odenkirk, Ben Stiller, Paul Henderson, James Van Der Beek, Anthony Rapp, Maura Tierney. A bittersweet, yet comical look at new filmmaker, Danny Roane (Andy DIck), as he struggles with alcoholism while making his first feature film. (WORLD PREMIERE)
High Score Dir: Jeremy Mack. Although technology has left them behind, a group of die-hard gamers still struggles to set high scores on classic arcade games in this entertaining documentary. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Lifelike Dir: Tally Abecassis. A documentary look at the fascinating and increasingly-mainstream world of stuffing and mounting dead animals. (U.S. PREMIERE)
The Lost Dir: Chris Siverston; Cast: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Alex Frost, Megan Henning, Robin Sydney. Based on the novel by Jack Ketchum, this is the dark tale of a loner who faces arrest and destruction when the events of a murder come back to haunt him. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Manhattan, Kansas Dir: Tara Wray. A first-person documentary feature told from the POV of a daughter coping with her mentally unstable mother. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Puppy Dir: Kieran Galvin; Cast: Nadia Townsend, Bernard Curry, Sally Bull. A love story about a resourceful young woman, a seriously delusional man, and two dead dogs. (NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE)
Things that Hang from Trees Dir: Ido Mizrahy; Cast: Deborah Kara Unger, Daniel von Bargen, Ray McKinnon, Peter Gerety. An eight-year-old boy's wish to see the fireworks from atop the city's lighthouse is complicated by his odd neighbors, abusive peers, and hopeless parents. (WORLD PREMIERE)
24 Beats Per Second
Air Guitar Nation Dir: Alexandra Lipsitz From New York to L.A. all the way to Northern Finland, this is a chronicle of the rise of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships through the eyes of former world champions, fans, and media. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That! Dir: Nathaniel Hornblower; Featuring: The Beastie Boys. A live performance creatively captured by audience members during a Beastie Boys concert at Madison Square Garden.
Before the Music Dies Dir: Andrew Shapter; Featuring: Erykah Badu, Dave Matthews, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton. Two music fans use insight from musicians and industry to investigate American music: it's rich past, troubled present, and bright future. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Crazy Again Dir: Zalman King; Featuring: Dale Watson, Hank Williams III. Texas Music Hall of Fame inductee Dale Watson reveals the story of going crazy with grief after the death of his girlfriend. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Danielson: A Family Movie Dir: JL Aronson; Featuring: Danielson Famile, Sufjan Stevens. A songwriter leads his family to indie rock stardom, eventually facing the struggles of a solo career and a protege who finds greater commercial success. (WORLD PREMIERE)
East of Havana Dir: Jauretsi Saizabitoria & Emilia Menocal. An unflinching close-up on the lives and friendship of three young rappers compelled to address their generation's future from the confines of a Cuban ghetto. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities Dir: Alex Gibney; Featuring: Herbie Hancock, Sting, Annie Lennox, Carlos Santana. This is a look at jazz legend Herbie Hancock, as he collaborates with an all-star roster to record a new project, while reflecting on his history and influence. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads Dir: Hector Galan. Three Mexican-American brothers from West Texas rock their way out of poverty, determined to fulfill their father's dream. (WORLD PREMIERE)
LoudQUIETloud: A Film about the Pixies Dir: Steve Cantor & Matt Galkin. This documentary chronicles the highly-anticipated and rather unlikely 2005 reunion tour of one of indie rock's most beloved bands. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Metal: A Headbandger's Journey Dir: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Jessica Joy Wise; Featuring: Tony Iommi, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Dee Snider, Vince Neil, Lemmy, Lamb of God, Slipknot. A window for the outsider into a culture that has been consistently stereotyped and widely dismissed, yet passionately loved by millions. (U.S. PREMIERE)
The Passing Show Dir: Rupert Williams & James Mackie; Featuring: Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Ian McLagan. A comprehensive look at Small Faces member Ronnie Lane as an entertainer, songwriter, and legend. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Pick Up The Mic Dir: Alex Hinton; Featuring: Juba Kalamka, Dutchboy, Johnny Dangerous. A startling and fast-paced documentary on the world of gay, lesbian, and trans-gendered rappers.
Punk Like Me Dir: Zach Merck. When a man cons his way onto the Warped Tour, as a 37 year-old amateur punk rock singer, he finally gets to fulfill his rock star fantasies. (WORLD PREMIERE)
The Refugee All-Stars Dir: Zach Niles & Banker White; Featuring: Rueben M. Koroma, Efuh Grace Ampomah, Francis John Langba. The story of a group of six musicians from Sierra Leone who come together to form a band while living as refugees in the West African nation of Guinea.
Suffering & Smiling Dir: Dan Ollman; Featuring: Femi Kuti. A provocative document of legendary African musicians Fela and Femi Kuti, and their impact on the Nigerian Government. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Lone Star States
2 A.M. Dir: Korey Coleman; Cast: Travis Ammons, Korey Coleman, Jeremy Denzlinger, Billy Brooks, Robert Henry. For five friends who are still awake when the bars close, the night is not over: some need to keep the party going, others need to fix whatever trouble they've started. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Jumping Off Bridges Dir: Kat Candler; Cast: Bryan Chafin, Glen Powell Jr., Savannah Welch, Katie Lemon. Carefree and adventurous, three teen-age friends escape their everyday lives, until a tragic event divides their friendships and brings childhood secrets to light. (WORLD PREMIERE)
La Tragedia de Macario Dir: Pablo Veliz; Cast: Rogelio Ramos, Milicent Figueroa, Tina Rodriguez . A peasant in Mexico struggles with thoughts of crossing the border into an unknown world.
Letters From the Other Side Dir: Heather Courtney. Video letters carried across the US/Mexico border by the film's director with the personal stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico.
Motorcycle Dir: Paul Gordon; Cast: Chris Pratt, Paula Resler, Brandi Perkins. Three people - a young man in search of a girlfriend, a young female bicycle messenger in search of enlightenment, and a teenage girl weary of small town life - find themselves riding the same motorcycle.
The Other Side Dir: Bill Brown. A two thousand-mile roadtrip along the US-Mexico border, happening in an age of homeland insecurity. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Slam Planet: War of the Words Dir: Mike Henry & Kyle Fuller. Film crews follow various slam poetry teams, as they become bound and determined to win the national competition. (WORLD PREMIERE)
State vs. Reed Dir: Ryan Polomski, Frank Bustoz. A captivating look at one man's battle with the legal system. (WORLD PREMIERE)
TV Junkie Dir: Michael Cain & Matt Radecki. A Texas-based "extreme sports" reporter records 3,000 hours of his dizzying and conflicted life, split between a happy family and troubling secret.
'Round Midnight
American Hardcore Dir: Paul Rachman. This documentary is a comprehensive and chaotic visual history of the underground scene of the American hardcore punk movement.
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon Dir: Scott Glosserman; Cast: Leslie Vernon, the great psycho-slasher upstart, has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the next unfortunate little town. (WORLD PREMIERE)
District 13 Dir: Pierre Morel; Cast: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario, Bibi Naceri. District 13 is a violent Paris slum that is so out-of-control that the authorities have constructed a giant wall around it, allowing the occupants to fight it out for themselves inside.
Fuck Dir: Steve Anderson; Featuring: Alanis Morissette, Drew Carey, Sam Donaldson, Alan Keyes, Chuck D, Pat Boone, Bill Maher. A documentary look at the infamous "F word," from both the liberal and conservative perspective.
Population 436 Dir: Michelle McLaren; Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Fred Durst, Charlotte Sullivan, Peter Outerbridge. Census worker Steve Kady is sent to Rockwell Falls to uncover the error that has caused the town's population to be recorded as 436 for over 100 years. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Slither Dir: James Gunn; Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker. A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
This Film Is Not Yet Rated Dir: Kirby Dick. This documentary is a provocative investigation of the people, places, and decisions that constitute the movie ratings board.
Special Screenings
51 Birch Street Dir: Doug Block. Do we ever really know our parents? And if we were suddenly given the chance to know all about them, would we take it?
A/K/A TOMMY CHONG Dir: Josh Gilbert; Featuring: Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Shelby Chong, Bill Maher, Jay Leno. The tragic and absurd journey of legendary counter-culture comedian Tommy Chong who was indicted in a drug paraphernalia sting.
American Gun Dir: Aric Avellano; Cast: Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, Linda Cardellini. A powerful series of interwoven storylines that brings to light how the proliferation of guns in America dramatically affects the lives of every day citizens.
Beethoven's Hair Dir: Larry Weinstein. The unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death.
Conversations with Other Women Dir: Hans Canosa; Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Aaron Eckhart, Nora Zehetner. The compelling story of a couple whose reunion at a wedding reception ignites a mysterious attraction for each other that is deeper and more emotionally perilous than they are willing to admit.
Disappearances Dir: Jay Craven; Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Genevieve Bujold. A schemer and dreamer resorts to whiskey-smuggling in an attempt to save his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Don't Come Knocking Dir: Wim Wenders; Cast: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley. At the age of 60, former movie star Howard uses drugs, alcohol and young girls to avoid the painful truth that there are only supporting roles left for him to play.
Forgiving the Franklins Dir: Jay Floyd; Cast: Teresa Willis, Robertson Dean, Aviva, Vince Pavia. A God fearing Southern family is spiritually altered by an auto accident, having their deeply rooted shame divinely removed.
Friends with Money Dir: Nicole Holofcener; Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Jason Isaacs, Timm Sharp, Joan Cusack. A comedy/drama about how money, and the lack of it, affects and distorts relationships among a small group of Los Angeles friends.
Gabrielle Dir: Patrice Chereau; Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory, Claudia Coli. Based on a Joseph Conrad story, this is tale of a marital breakdown that overwhelms a middle aged bourgeois couple.
Hard Candy Dir: David Slade; Cast: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh. An online predator is taken captive by a resourceful young girl in this kinetic thriller.
The Heart of the Game Dir: Ward Serrill. A documentary capturing the passion of a Seattle high school girls' basketball team.
The Hidden Blade Dir: Yoji Yamada; Cast: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Yukitoshi Ozawa. An honest, low-ranking samurai finds himself locked in the confusion of old and new in 19th-century Japan.
In My Father's Den Dir: Brad McGann; Cast: Matthew MacFadyen, Miranda Otto, Colin Moy. A disillusioned war journalist is implicated in the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl.
Infamy Dir: Doug Pray. Without seeking to glorify it or chronicle its history, a documentary filmmaker turns to visual street culture, traveling into the lives and minds of seven people obsessed with graffiti.
Johanna Dir: Kornel Mundruczo; Cast: Orsi Toth, Zsolt Trill. A young girl is rushed to the hospital after a bus crash. She suffers total amnesia, and is healed of her drug dependency. In place of her old life and habits, she feels only the presence of God, to whom she now belongs entirely.
Kinky Boots Dir: Julian Jarrold; Cast: Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor. A shoe factory in working-class England reluctantly finds its niche in shoewear for cross-dressing performers.
L'Enfant Dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne; Cast: Jeremie Renier, Deborah Francois, Fabrizio Rongione. Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
The Last Western Dir: Chris Deaux. A documentary on the bygone era of the B-western and the colorful citizens of Pioneertown, a dusty outpost on the edge of the Mojave Desert in the shadow of Los Angeles. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Lower City Dir: Sergio Machado; Cast: Alice Braga, Lazaro Ramos, Wagner Moura. Two men and one woman are propelled into a world of crime, sex, and love while mastering the complexities of modern-day Brazil.
Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress Dir: donnie betts. A documentary look at the life of musician, playwright, and civil rights activist Oscar Brown, Jr.
Neil Young: Heart of Gold Dir: Jonathan Demme. Demme chronicles a historic concert performed by legendary singer- songwriter Neil Young.
Old Joy Dir: Kelly Reichardt; Cast: Will Oldham, Daniel London. This film is a minimalist story of friendship, loss, and alienation in the Bush era.
Sisters in Law Dir: Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi. This documentary examines the little town of Kumba, Cameroon, and the fgact that here have been no convictions in spousal abuse cases for 17 years. Thanks to a tough-minded state prosecutor and court president, things may be starting to change.
Small Town Gay Bar Dir: Malcolm Ingram. In the face of cruelty, ridicule, and even violence, American homosexuals manage to find sanctuary in the only place they are offered within hundreds of miles: gay bars. This documentary tells their story.
Thank You For Smoking Dir: Jason Reitman; Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Sam Elliot, Katie Holmes. Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, makes his living defending the rights of smokers and cigarette makers in today's neo- puritanical culture.
The Treasures of Long Gone John Dir: Gregg Gibbs. A chronicle of the eccentric art and musical obsessions of a self- described anti-mogul of the music industry, indie record producer Long Gone John.
V For Vendetta Dir: James McTeigue; Cast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea. In the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, a man cloaked in mystery ignites a revolution and finds an unlikely ally in a seemingly mild mannered young woman.
Wah-Wah Dir: Richard E. Grant; Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson. A young boy comes of age in 1960s Swaziland, centered around his parents' divorce and a new stepmother.
Wide Awake Dir: Alan Berliner. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Berlin examines his years-long bout with insomnia.
( posted on Feb 6, 2006 at 12:00AM | filed under Lead Story, Lineups )
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| Excuse me please, does anyone know when it's released nationwide or in select cities?? |
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No word as yet, Daisy.
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http://www.glidemagazine.com/news2853.html
Pixies Documentary To Debut At SXSW
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
"loudQuietloud: A Film About The Pixies," an intimate, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Pixies’ massively successful 2004 reunion tour, from the first rehearsal to the final bow nearly a year later, will have its world premiere during the South By Southwest Film and Music Festivals in Austin, Texas with screenings at the Austin Convention Center on Sunday evening March 12 at 9:30 pm and Saturday afternoon March 18 at 4:30 pm.
A post-screening party will take place at Austin’s brand new Beauty Bar, immediately following the March 12 premiere. Beauty Bar is located at 617 E. 7th St at Red River.
The usually press shy Pixies granted unprecedented access to award-winning directors Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin for the New York-based Stick Figure Productions. In loudQuietLoud, Cantor and Galkin, create an intimate portrait of the artists, their relationships with family, fans and each other, and the combustible dynamic when the four come together on stage. The film provides an insider’s perspective of a touring band’s life, from the loud, emotional highs of performing to sell out crowds, to renewed tensions that arose between band members; to the quiet times spent between performances, to the life experiences that continue while band members are away on tour, from the birth of a child to the death of a parent.
In addition to the striking concert footage highlighting some of the band’s most compelling music including “Where Is My Mind,” “Gouge Away,” and “Hey,” the film also features a stunning original score, composed and performed by renowned artist and producer Daniel Lanois (whose credits include U2, Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris).
“Since the Pixies split acrimoniously, this was a very unlikely reunion,” Galkin commented. “As documentary filmmakers we realized there was a huge opportunity to explore this band as they got back together. Would they still sound good? Would they get along? Would old tensions and creative disputes re-emerge?
Added Cantor: “We really love their music and, like everyone else, we were curious. We were sitting together when we heard news of their reunion and the first thing we did was buy tickets to a show. Only after we had bought the tickets did it occur to us that we should make the film. We were aware of the myths and mystery surrounding the Pixies and the prospect of uncovering some of that was tantalizing. That’s where I believe documentaries should start. You’re curious about a subject and want to explore more yourself. |
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Would anyone know if there are any plans for a DVD release of loudQUIETloud?
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http://www.cinematical.com/2006/03/08/2006-sxsw-film-festival-a-preview/
loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies – The Pixies were the great, forgotten rock band of the late 80s ... until they made their inevitable comeback, in the form of a series of concerts and tours, that seemingly refused to end. But despite the fact that Black Francis and friends have sort of worn out their welcome back, the reforming of any band that broke up via fax is worth looking into. Let's hope loud will, at the very least, make great fodder for the inevitable fictionalization – may I suggest Catherine Keener for the role of Kim Deal?
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2006/03/14/sxsw_franken/index_np.html
SXSW starts to swing
The festival premieres films about Al Franken, the Pixies and the music biz. Plus: Did Andy Dick really hump an audience member's head?
By Andrew O'Hehir
You know you're at the South by Southwest festival when the guy in front of you in the popcorn line at the movies, the shambling dude with the giant Afro comb stuck in his giant Afro, actually is ?uestlove of the Roots, rather than just some hipster who looks like him. And when the woman with equally impressive hair who is standing in the auditorium doorway telling him to hurry up and get his ass inside is Erykah Badu. (Admittedly, I've never seen anybody who looked much like her.)
On Day Three of this year's SXSW Film Festival, some of the event's vaunted convergence came to the fore, with rousing world premieres of two new music documentaries: the anti-corporate screed "Before the Music Dies," in which Badu and ?uestlove are prominently featured, and "loudQUIETloud," which follows '80s indie-rock legends the Pixies through their 2004 reunion tour. Beyond that, SXSW's friendly, slightly scruffy alterna-vibe began to seem more coherent. In its own unthreatening, vintage-clothes-'n'-cappuccino manner, this festival is launching one protest after another against the way America is right now and how it's being run.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/movies/14058869.htm
Other music films include world premieres of the documentaries "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," which follows the influential band's hotly awaited reunion tour; "Air Guitar Nation," which is about exactly what the title suggests; and "Before the Music Dies," a historical piece featuring interviews and performances from Badu, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews and Bonnie Raitt.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1141944645119&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630
Movies about music (Before the Music Dies, Pick Up the Mic, loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies), Internet porn (LOL), hot rod culture (Tales of the Ratfink), gaming cults (Darkon), multicultural experience (Eve and the Firehorse, AMERICANese), credit card debt (Maxed Out) — even gambling addiction (Even Money).
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002156839
Documentary Goes Inside Pixies Reunion
March 10, 2006, 10:30 AM ET
Katie Hasty, N.Y.
"loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies" will premiere Sunday (March 12) during the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. Directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin for New York-based Stick Figure Productions, the documentary chronicles the Pixies' year-long reunion tour which began in 2004, starting with the first rehearsals and ending with the band's quiet dissipation. Daniel Lanois contributed an original score to the project.
"It was surprising to see how utterly human this band was, particularly in comparison to their idolized image," Cantor tells Billboard.com. "They were all coping with pretty standard mid-life issues, and meanwhile all these sold-out crowds were going crazy over them."
The filmmakers captured live footage from a number of concerts and were given consistent, personal access to the quartet on and off-stage. The Pixies disbanded in 1992 under rancorous circumstances and those sentiments were still apparent even after 12 years of separation.
"Not that they despise one another, they are just not the types of people who talk a lot. They would barely talk to each other in the van, get to the venue and go to their dressing rooms and warm up on their own, read or listen to music. And then when they got on stage, there was this electric energy and connection with each other and the audience. And then again, once they walked off stage, they would barely say another word to each other. They certainly pulled off the on-stage charisma though so maybe that was just their unorthodox method of preparation."
"loudQuietloud" also emphasizes the personal issues of each of the band members. Cantor and Galkin capture bassist Kim Deal's struggle with sobriety, drummer David Lovering's floundering career prior to the reunion, frontman Frank Black's desire to nurture his relationship with his pregnant girlfriend and children and guitarist Joey Santiago's race to finish projects outside of the tour.
"[Black] and Kim were both on the reclusive side, they spent hours on end in their hotel rooms, reading or napping. Sometimes it felt like they only left their rooms to go on stage," Cantor says. "I don't think the issues they had in the early days were resolved in any way, but they did make both make an effort to coexist this time around and resisted any major blow-ups -- at least none that we observed."
Cantor, who won an Emmy award for his 2003 television film "Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving," says the challenge of making any music documentary is to pick out the most interesting moments while still making the film true to life.
"It felt like each day, there'd only be two hours of excitement and 22 hours of what was basically silence," he says. "It must be difficult, as a musician who's in your 40s, to go through putting this whole thing together and feel like your crowd is there only to hear the stuff you wrote when you were in your 20s."
Speaking as an "outsider looking in," Cantor doesn't expect another reunion or even another album to come from the fabled rockers, though their "lives were changed" and the band went from scrambling to make a living to "being rich and hugely successful" -- which was hardly achieved during their initial formation.
"I feel like 75% of the reason for the reunion was for money, but the other 25% was because of the fact that they're legends," he says.
There's no date yet for the wide release of "loudQuietloud" but the film will be screened twice more during South by Southwest (March 14, 18). Additional screenings are set for April 26 in Los Angeles and during New York's Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 25-May 7.
Cantor is currently working on the Lisa Loeb reality television show "#1 Single" and is in the midst of organizing a documentary on reggae rapper Matisyahu. Galkin, who co-directed the music video for LCD Soundsystem's "Disco Infiltrator" and was associate producer on Martin Scorsese's "The Blues: Five Riffs," is directing a documentary on animal rights organization PETA.
http://musicnews.virgin.net/Virgin/Lifestyle/Music/virginMusicNewsDetail/0,13556,1077371_music,00.html
New film shows Pixies tensions
Filmmaker Steven Cantor hopes to explain the bizarre relationship between the members of legendary indie band the Pixies in a new documentary.
Cantor's movie 'Loudquietloud: A Film About The Pixies' followed the band on their reunion tour in 2004 and 2005 and the director says he has captured the unusual tensions between band-members Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering.
He told Billboard: "It's not that they despise one another, they are just not the types of people who talk a lot.
"They would barely talk to each other in the van, get to the venue and go to their dressing rooms and warm up on their own, read or listen to music.
"Then, when they got on stage, there was this electric energy and connection with each other and the audience. And then again, once they walked off stage, they would barely say another word to each other."
The film will be premiered next week at the influential South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=10441
(Fans of music docs could fill a few days with movies about Neil Young, The Pixies, The Beastie Boys, Herbie Hancock, and Heavy Metal!)
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/0313/pixies.html
13 March 2006
Pixies documentary premieres in US
A new documentary about seminal US band the Pixies premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas last night.
Billboard reports that 'loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies' was directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin and follows the Pixies' year-long reunion tour.
The film features an original score by musician and producer Daniel Lanois.
'loudQuietloud' is a candid study of the four members of the band, and looks at their various personal issues and relationships with each other.
Commenting on the dynamic between the four members of the band, director Cantor told Billboard: "They would barely talk to each other in the van, get to the venue and go to their dressing rooms and warm up on their own, read or listen to music. And then when they got on stage, there was this electric energy and connection with each other and the audience."
He continued: "And then again, once they walked off stage, they would barely say another word to each other. They certainly pulled off the on-stage charisma though so maybe that was just their unorthodox method of preparation."
Frank Black of the Pixies
http://music.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1136264.php/Rock_doc_follows_Pixies_reunion
Rock doc follows Pixies reunion
By Katie Hasty Mar 11, 2006, 10:42 GMT
'loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies' will premiere Sunday (March 12) during the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. Directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin for New York-based Stick Figure Productions, the documentary chronicles the Pixies` year-long reunion tour which began in 2004, starting with the first rehearsals and ending with the band`s quiet dissipation. Daniel Lanois contributed an original score to the project.
'It was really interesting to see how utterly human this band was, compared to their idolized status,' Cantor tells Billboard.com. 'They all had to deal with their own stuff and cope with their own lives while all these sold-out crowds were going crazy over them.'
The filmmakers captured live footage from a number of concerts and were given consistent, personal access to the quartet on and off-stage. The Pixies disbanded in 1992 under rancorous circumstances and those sentiments were still apparent even after 12 years of separation.
'They wouldn`t talk to each other in the van - they`d get to the venue and go to their separate rooms and read or listen to music. They`d do their `Hi`s and hello`s` and then get on stage and it was like, where did this come from?' he says. 'They`d be so chatty and make jokes and smile and stuff on stage and then, once they walked off, they wouldn`t say another word to each other. They faked it very well.'
'loudQuietloud' also emphasizes the personal issues of each of the band members. Cantor and Galkin capture bassist Kim Deal`s struggle with sobriety, drummer David Lovering`s floundering career prior to the reunion, frontman Frank Black`s desire to nurture his relationship with his pregnant girlfriend and children and guitarist Joey Santiago`s race to finish projects outside of the tour.
'[Black] would be so reclusive, he`d have a hard time leaving his hotel room to do anything but go on stage,' Cantor says. 'He and Kim seemed to have a lot of the same tensions that they`d had from years before.'
Cantor, who won an Emmy award for his 2003 television film 'Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving,' says the challenge of making any music documentary is to pick out the most interesting moments while still making the film true to life.
'It felt like each day, there`d only be two hours of excitement and 22 hours of what was basically silence,' he says. 'It must be difficult, as a musician who`s in your 40s, to go through putting this whole thing together and feel like your crowd is there only to hear the stuff you wrote when you were in your 20s.'
Speaking as an 'outsider looking in,' Cantor doesn`t expect another reunion or even another album to come from the fabled rockers, though their 'lives were changed' and the band went from scrambling to make a living to 'being rich and hugely successful' - which was hardly achieved during their initial formation.
'I feel like 75 percent of the reason for the reunion was for money, but the other 25 percent was because of the fact that they`re legends,' he says.
There`s no date yet for the wide release of 'loudQuietloud' but the film will be screened twice more during South by Southwest (March 14, 18). Additional screenings are set for April 26 in Los Angeles and during New York`s Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 25-May 7.
Cantor is currently working on the Lisa Loeb reality television show '#1 Single' and is in the midst of organizing a documentary on reggae rapper Matisyahu. Galkin, who co-directed the music video for LCD Soundsystem`s 'Disco Infiltrator' and was associate producer on Martin Scorsese`s 'The Blues: Five Riffs,' is directing a documentary on animal rights organization PETA.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/inbrief/story/9475369/from_50_cent_to_cmurder?rnd=1142412944765&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1483
Pixies Reunion Film Unveiled
A documentary chronicling the PIXIES' year-long reunion tour, loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies, premiered this week at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin. Directed by Matthew Galkin, (LCD SOUNDSYSTEM's "Disco Infiltrator" clip) and Steven Cantor (the Emmy-winning WILLIE NELSON: Still Is Still Moving, LISA LOEB's upcoming reality show #1 Single), the film captures some of the group's captivating live performances, as well as offstage drama. Bassist KIM DEAL struggles to stay sober, and frontman FRANK BLACK (formerly BLACK FRANCIS) tries to be as attentive as possible to his then-pregnant girlfriend and kids. Additional screenings are slated for April 26th in Los Angeles, and New York's Tribeca Film Festival from April 25th through May 7th.
http://www.spin.com/features/news/2006/03/060313_pixies/
Pixies Documentary Premieres at SXSW
March 13, 2006
Before Frank Black hits the road with the Pixies for a few select dates, fans will get a chance to see what really went on when the band reformed for its 2004 reunion tour.
loudQuietloud, which will premiere during SXSW, chronicles the band's year-long trek, from the first rehearsals, to the closing dates. The documentary includes live footage and behind-the-scenes coverage, and allows a glimpse into the residual disdain that was still apparent in the band 12 years after disbanding.
"It was surprising to see how utterly human this band was, particularly in comparison to their idolized image," co-director Steven Cantor, who directed the 2003 television movie, "Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving," told Billboard.com. "They were all coping with pretty standard mid-life issues, and meanwhile all these sold-out crowds were going crazy over them."
The film also touches on each member personally, from bassist Kim Deal's attempts to stay sober, to Black's struggle to juggle the tour and his relationship with his girlfriend and children.
No release date has been set yet, but the film will screen on April 26 in Los Angeles and during New York's Tribeca Film Festival, after premiering at SXSW.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=303289
SXSW: "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies" Review
Posted by RT-News on Monday, Mar. 13, 2006, 12:11 PM
Tim Ryan writes: "Rock history is filled with great bands that were never fully appreciated in their heydays, but few were as influential as the Pixies, whose five albums were a template for such bigger sellers as Nirvana, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, even OutKast ("Hey Ya" is one of the best Pixies’ rips of recent years).
Fewer still were able to reunite and attain the success they so richly deserved in the first place. The Pixies' 2004 tour was a triumph both musically and financially. "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," making its world premiere at South by Southwest, documents the band's moment in the sun. While the movie doesn't delve too far into some of the messier aspects, it makes up for it with excellent concert footage; you can practically feel the sweat on Black Francis' brow.
The film hints at, but never delves too far into, the intra-band acrimony that kept the group apart for more than 10 years, and the effect of, and recovery from, substance abuse that individual members faced. The film never really gets into the band's backstory, nor does it explain the cult that has grown around the band since its breakup, or how a band that sold zero records in its prime ended up selling out huge auditoriums in minutes.
And yet…Goodness, what a joy it is to behold the Pixies play those songs, those strange, surreal, startlingly melodic songs. Filmmakers Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin capture concert performances so powerful, so joyful, that most objections can be overlooked.
And there are a few starling moments that illustrate not only the ravages of life on the road, but the intensity with which fans identify with their favorite artists. After the band's first show, a warmup for the long grueling tour, bassist Kim Deal runs backstage to soak her blistered, ravaged hands in ice. And in one of the film's most poignant moments, a teenage fan (who may not have even been born when "Come On Pilgrim" was released), is seen not only meeting Deal, her idol, but playing bass in a Pixies cover band. The kids' version of "Monkey's Gone to Heaven" segues into the Pixies playing the same song, a fitting tribute to a band that holds an intense place in the hearts of a couple generations of rock fans."
http://www.aversion.com/news/news_article.cfm?news_id=6142
Documentary Examines Pixies Reunion
Mar 14, 2006
A documentary that chronicles The Pixies' 2004 reunion will make its debut at South By Southwest this week.
The Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin-directed film, loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies goes behind the scenes during part of the alt-rock icons' 2004 reunion tour. The film, which delivers backstage interviews as well as requisite tour and live footage, juggles the uneasy balance of personalities between the members with their comeback tour.
After SXSW, the film is expected to show up at several other film festivals. A commercial release has yet to be announced.
http://www.whiskey-soda.de/news.php?id=13450
Dokumentation über die Pixies
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Diese Woche wird im Rahmen des South By South West-Festivals in Austin, Texas eine Doukmentation über die Reformation der Pixies uraufgeführt, enthalten sind gleichermaßen Live- und Backstageaufnahmen und ausführliche Interviews. Produzent Daniel Lanois (U2, Bob Dylan) verfasste den Soundtrack und Regisseur Steven Cantor äußert sich wie folgt:
"It was surprising to see how utterly human this band was, particularly in comparison to their idolised image. They were all coping with pretty standard mid-life issues, and meanwhile all these sold-out crowds were going crazy over them."
Der Film zeigt auch die Gefühle zwischen den Bandmitgliedern, welche nicht immer nur positiv sind: "Not that they despise one another, they are just not the types of people who talk a lot. They would barely talk to each other in the van, get to the venue and go to their dressing rooms and warm up on their own, read or listen to music. And then when they got on stage, there was this electric energy and connection with each other and the audience."
Auch die Gründe für die Reunion werden beleuchtet:
"I feel like 75 per cent of the reason for the reunion was for money, but the other 25 per cent was because of the fact that they're legends,"
Der Film soll im anschluß auf weiteren Festivals zur Aufführumg kommen und dann auf DVD erscheinen!
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/movies/14096990.htm
Posted on Tue, Mar. 14, 2006
Documentary follows Pixies on reunion tour
CHRISTY LEMIRE
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas - Twelve years after breaking up, the Pixies were more popular and influential than when they were together.
So filmmakers Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin knew they had the potential for a great documentary when the band announced they were reuniting for a world tour in 2004 - and sold out the concert sites within minutes.
The result is "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," which made its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival.
The documentary provides astonishing access to four musicians who were known as much for their reclusiveness and infighting as they were for their unique sound: a mix of punk rock, surf guitar, screaming vocals and sometimes discordant harmonies that's impossible to classify.
Kurt Cobain admitted that when he wrote "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nirvana's first hit, he was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. Radiohead also has pointed to them as an influence, and Bono and David Bowie have praised them as one of the best bands ever.
"When we first heard they were getting back together, our first reaction was, 'Oh my God, we have to get tickets,'" said Cantor, an Oscar nominee for the 1993 documentary short "Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann." "I think while we were on the phone getting tickets from Ticketmaster, we said, `Wait a minute - we're filmmakers. This would make a good film.'"
Galkin added: "Steven and I both felt that, because they were so influential but also so underdocumented when they were around - there is virtually no intimate footage of the Pixies - we both felt there was a beautiful opportunity to actually document something intimate with this band that had such a mystique about them that was fascinating to us."
Cantor and Galkin followed the Boston-based band from its first hesitant rehearsal - where bassist Kim Deal can't recall how many times to sing the word "chained" at the end of "Hey" - to its thunderous final shows at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
They rehearse and perform such favorites as "Gouge Away," "U-Mass," "Bone Machine" and "Here Comes Your Man." And the way they sound, you'd never know they'd been apart.
After their 1992 breakup - which lead singer Charles Thompson announced on BBC Radio to the surprise of his bandmates - Deal formed the Breeders with her sister, Kelley, and went through rehab. Thompson launched a solo career using his nom de stage, Frank Black. Drummer David Lovering became a magician and guitarist Joey Santiago wrote scores for documentaries.
"I was basically eking it out," Santiago says at the film's start. "(The reunion) couldn't have come at a better time."
Both Cantor and Galkin said they were surprised to find that the band members were "shockingly normal" - at first.
"Early on, they were much more regular people, and as the tour went on they became the Pixies, they became rock stars, they became more reclusive and they talked to each other less," Cantor said.
"We had less access in the middle of the tour. We had a lot in the beginning and a lot at the end," said Galkin. "We got some good stuff in Iceland, some good stuff in London."
"It's not that they cut off our access, they cut off access to everyone," Cantor said. "They didn't leave their rooms and they'd read a lot."
"I think they very quickly slipped into the same roles they always played," Galkin added. "They haven't changed that much in 12 years."
At a party after the SXSW premiere, Santiago said he and the others let Cantor and Galkin in on intimate moments during the tour because they were "shooting a documentary and we knew they had to do that."
But he added: "I would bet that more than half of the bands don't hang out with each other that much and don't talk to each other that much. I mean, the only one I can think of is the Monkees."
"We think we're pretty normal, there's nothing to be hiding," Lovering added.
As for seeing the film in front of a packed house, the drummer told the AP: "I was anxious before going tonight. I felt like I was doing a gig."
And he'll get that feeling again soon: Lovering said that, while they're not necessarily reuniting for good, the Pixies are planning to go on another European tour this summer.
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http://www.sxsw.com
http://www.austin360.com/sxsw/content/events/sxsw06/stories/15scene.html
Nobody could find the two members of the Pixies who were supposed to be at the after-party for "LoudQuietLoud: A Film About the Pixies" on Sunday night at the new Beauty Bar on East Seventh Street. And nobody seemed to care, distracted as they were in the shiny space, getting complimentary drinks and, no joke, free manicures.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertainment/14100474.htm
While there was noticeable interest in the SXSW crowd for East of Havana, equal attention was paid to other members of the panel: Steven Cantor, co-director of LoudQUIETloud, a film about the reunion of the Pixies; Zach Niles and Banker White, directors of The Refugee All-Stars, about musicians from Sierra Leone discovered in a refugee camp; and Margaret Brown, director of Be Here to Love Me, a biography of the late singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. |
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Tim Ryan writes: "Rock history is filled with great bands that were never fully appreciated in their heydays, but few were as influential as the Pixies, whose five albums were a template for such bigger sellers as Nirvana, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, even OutKast ("Hey Ya" is one of the best Pixies’ rips of recent years).
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You know, I've sen that said about the Outkast song before. Don't get it either. Anywho, Aint it cool.com has FB gadfly Josh Frank's review of loudquietloud. Not a lot of details about the movie, but plenty of info on Josh Frank...
"I popped three Excedrin, two benedril, and a half a zanex and asked my dad to come along for moral support"
"When I was first interviewing them 4 years ago..."
"I spent the last 4 years of my life and the better half of my late twenties and early thirties writing a book about the birth, life and death of this band."
"I got home and my author copy of the book was there."
"As my father always says about my relationships with women “it is, what it is.”
"So I was trying to stay calm and realize the difference in mediums and not be jealous or freaked out or even worse, afraid that my four years of work would be meaningless because the movie is really good."
"I was embarrassed as hell but hey, it’s dad, he’s my best friend, and as always my biggest fan. (I pretended I didn’t know him.)"
"Maybe I didn’t need the zanex after all."
Here's a link: http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22744
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Documentary follows Pixies on reunion tour
(AP Photo/Stick Figure Productions) :: Frank Black and Kim Deal, background, in concert in 2004 from the documentary film "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," which made its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival.
By Associated Press
CHRISTY LEMIRE
Updated: 03/14/06
AUSTIN, Texas
Twelve years after breaking up, the Pixies were more popular and influential than when they were together.
So filmmakers Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin knew they had the potential for a great documentary when the band announced they were reuniting for a world tour in 2004 _ and sold out the concert sites within minutes.
The result is "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," which made its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival.
The documentary provides astonishing access to four musicians who were known as much for their reclusiveness and infighting as they were for their unique sound: a mix of punk rock, surf guitar, screaming vocals and sometimes discordant harmonies that's impossible to classify.
Kurt Cobain admitted that when he wrote "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nirvana's first hit, he was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. Radiohead also has pointed to them as an influence, and Bono and David Bowie have praised them as one of the best bands ever.
"When we first heard they were getting back together, our first reaction was, 'Oh my God, we have to get tickets,'" said Cantor, an Oscar nominee for the 1993 documentary short "Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann." "I think while we were on the phone getting tickets from Ticketmaster, we said, `Wait a minute _ we're filmmakers. This would make a good film.'"
Galkin added: "Steven and I both felt that, because they were so influential but also so underdocumented when they were around _ there is virtually no intimate footage of the Pixies _ we both felt there was a beautiful opportunity to actually document something intimate with this band that had such a mystique about them that was fascinating to us."
Cantor and Galkin followed the Boston-based band from its first hesitant rehearsal _ where bassist Kim Deal can't recall how many times to sing the word "chained" at the end of "Hey" _ to its thunderous final shows at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
They rehearse and perform such favorites as "Gouge Away," "U-Mass," "Bone Machine" and "Here Comes Your Man." And the way they sound, you'd never know they'd been apart.
After their 1992 breakup _ which lead singer Charles Thompson announced on BBC Radio to the surprise of his bandmates _ Deal formed the Breeders with her sister, Kelley, and went through rehab. Thompson launched a solo career using his nom de stage, Frank Black. Drummer David Lovering became a magician and guitarist Joey Santiago wrote scores for documentaries.
"I was basically eking it out," Santiago says at the film's start. "(The reunion) couldn't have come at a better time."
Both Cantor and Galkin said they were surprised to find that the band members were "shockingly normal" _ at first.
"Early on, they were much more regular people, and as the tour went on they became the Pixies, they became rock stars, they became more reclusive and they talked to each other less," Cantor said.
"We had less access in the middle of the tour. We had a lot in the beginning and a lot at the end," said Galkin. "We got some good stuff in Iceland, some good stuff in London."
"It's not that they cut off our access, they cut off access to everyone," Cantor said. "They didn't leave their rooms and they'd read a lot."
"I think they very quickly slipped into the same roles they always played," Galkin added. "They haven't changed that much in 12 years."
At a party after the SXSW premiere, Santiago said he and the others let Cantor and Galkin in on intimate moments during the tour because they were "shooting a documentary and we knew they had to do that."
But he added: "I would bet that more than half of the bands don't hang out with each other that much and don't talk to each other that much. I mean, the only one I can think of is the Monkees."
"We think we're pretty normal, there's nothing to be hiding," Lovering added.
As for seeing the film in front of a packed house, the drummer told the AP: "I was anxious before going tonight. I felt like I was doing a gig."
And he'll get that feeling again soon: Lovering said that, while they're not necessarily reuniting for good, the Pixies are planning to go on another European tour this summer.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Published March 16, 2006
loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
Documentary follows Pixies' reunion tour
By Christy Lemire | Associated Press
Twelve years after breaking up, the Pixies were more popular and influential than when they were together.
So filmmakers Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin knew they had the potential for a great documentary when the band announced it was reuniting for a world tour in 2004 - and sold out the concerts within minutes.
The result is "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," which made its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival earlier this month.
The documentary provides astonishing access to four musicians who were known as much for their reclusiveness and infighting as they were for their unique sound: a mix of punk rock, surf guitar, screaming vocals and sometimes discordant harmonies that's impossible to classify.
Cantor and Galkin followed the Boston-based band from its first hesitant rehearsal to its thunderous final shows at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
http://www.nme.com/news/pixies/22479
Inside story of the Pixies reunion revealed
New film goes backstage with the reformed band
The inside story of the Pixies reunion is set to be revealed in a behind-the-scenes film.
The group who reformed in 2004 for an extensive tour, have been captured in new documentary 'loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies' which will premiere at this week's (March 15-19) South By South West music festival in Austin, Texas.
The film features live footage from a series of Pixies' shows, plus backstage interviews with the band. Bob Dylan collaborator Daniel Lanois has written an original score.
"It was surprising to see how utterly human this band was, particularly in comparison to their idolised image," Steven Cantor, who directed the documentary with Matthew Galkin, told Billboard. "They were all coping with pretty standard mid-life issues, and meanwhile all these sold-out crowds were going crazy over them."
Following the group's original disintegration in 1993, the director added that the film captures some of the feelings of resentment that still exist between band members.
"Not that they despise one another, they are just not the types of people who talk a lot," he said. "They would barely talk to each other in the van, get to the venue and go to their dressing rooms and warm up on their own, read or listen to music. And then when they got on stage, there was this electric energy and connection with each other and the audience."
With the film also reflecting the band's personal struggles before the reformation, Cantor added that the band's motivations for the recent link-up had been mixed.
"I feel like 75 per cent of the reason for the reunion was for money, but the other 25 per cent was because of the fact that they're legends," said the director.
Currently there is no general release date for 'loudQuietloud', but the film is expected to be screened at a series of forthcoming film festivals.
http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2006/03/dispatch_from_s_3.html
Other films in the 24 Beats Per Second section include Alexandra Lipsitz's "Air Guitar Nation," Zalman King's "Crazy Again," JL Aronson's "Danielson: A Family Movie," Alex Gibney's "Herbie Hancock: Possibilities," Hector Galan's "Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads," Steve Cantor & Matt Galkin's "LoudQUIETloud: A Film about the Pixies," Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Jessica Joy Wise's "Metal: A Headbandger's Journey," Rupert Williams & James Mackie's "The Passing Show," Alex Hinton's "Pick Up The Mic," Zach Merck's "Punk Lik," and Dan Ollman's "The Passing Show."
http://www.popmatters.com/features/sxsw2006/peterson-060316.shtml
PopMatters @ SXSW 2006
Film Days 4 and 5: Camps, Pixies, and Four Letter Words
[16 March 2006]
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From the Blues Brothers to the Eagles to Motley Crue, there's a certain etiquette in place when it comes to band reunions. For starters, it's generally expected that the band will have broken up while they were at some kind of creative or commercial peak. This break-up is to be the fault of substance abuse and intra-band acrimony, resulting in years apart marked by solo projects and a lack of communication. Hints of a reunion, of course, are to be ever present, but they are to be dismissed in interviews as idle speculation. Until, one day, the right mixture of nostalgia and cash combine and the big announcement finally comes: "We're getting the band back together, man!"
Fans of the Pixies will recognize this formula clearly. Though they enjoyed moderate success before they broke up, the bulk of the band's followers were converted during their long hiatus, as prophets like Kurt Cobain brought their musical structures (referenced by loudQUIETloud's title) down from the mountain for millions of alt kids to worship. The Pixies became known as the band that started the alternative/grunge/indie rock movement, garnering the lion's share of their fame when they were no longer in existence. Their reunion, consequently, was a resurrection that had been anticipated for years with a nearly religious fervor.
loudQUIETloud, directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin, follows the group around on their 2004 reunion tour, beginning with footage of their first, tentative rehearsals (in which bassist Kim Deal relies on her Ipod to remember her parts) to their final series of sold-out shows in New York City. In between, the film looks to balance its celebration of the group's influential music with introspective portraits of the group's infamously cantankerous personalities. Those looking for touching confessions or effusive reconciliations, however, will be disappointed. The film is unable to add any insight into the personal dynamics at work among the group that fans have not already read about in countless magazine articles before.
That's not necessarily the film's fault, though. Frank Black, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, and David Lovering are spectacularly uncommunicative people, both toward each other and toward the cameras. We get hints that Black might be a bit of a control freak, and it's clear that Kim is struggling with her sobriety, but these are hardly revelations. Instead, the film can only offer a great many shots of the band members off by themselves, reading or sitting silently in their hotel rooms. Given this, it's not hard to see what caused the band to split up, but we're no closer to understanding why they all behave this way.
Fans of the band will enjoy loudQUIETloud more as an extended concert film than anything else. And for many, this is likely enough. Sure, we may not ever understand what drives these people apart, but watching them tear through "Gouge Away" in front of thousands of screaming fans — shaved heads, beer bellies, and all — is very much its own reward. |
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Pixies author and fanatic Josh Frank saw their flick, LoudQUIETLoud, at SXSW!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a review of the Pixies doco that played SXSW called LoudQUIETLoud. We got a review sent in from a man by the name of Josh Frank, who is a Pixies fantatic. He authored an upcoming book on the band and wrote in a heartfelt and passionate review very much in the vein of AICN reviewing, especially Harry's early reviews. Tons of personal info in there, but beneath it all, this is a geek geeking out. Enjoy!!!
To Harry and the gang. Frequent reader, first time reviewer. I felt it very fitting to write a review “Harry Style” for this, and to turn it in to “Ain’t it cool” since the personal touch reviewing works perfect for this particular review. You see I just saw the SXSW premiere of “LoudQUIETloud.” It is a Doc about the Pixies and ya see, I spent the last 4 years of my life and the better half of my late twenties and early thirties writing a book about the birth, life and death of this band. The book, “Fool The World, The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies,” will be published by St. Martin’s Press on March 21.
Two years before there was any hint of a reunion, two years before every teenager and post teenager were back in Pixie mania, I was running around the world interviewing every person that ever had anything to do with Boston, The Pixies, and the early alt rock scene in the sleepy west of the woody east.
See I was going to write a musical about my favorite musician Frank Black, his solo career and his life with the Pixies. The amount of material I collected was so overwhelming and usable that I switched gears as the musical waited silently in development and started compiling the book.
Four years ago I thought it was important to tell their story, so I have been. It was even more fitting that upon returning from the screening tonight I find in my mailbox an advance copy of the book I wrote.
So I was quite nervous walking into the movie theatre that seats 450 people, meeting the two guys who made the movie, and seeing the excitement of the audience (something a book writer never gets to see, you write alone, it comes out, people buy it from the internet or at bookstores from people at cash registers and the best you get is to pat yourself on the back and buy yourself a shot and say hooray for me and my book). Movies are magic, movies are fanfair, it’s like acting, or putting on a play, you can’t do it without an audience. Lucky bastards. So I was trying to stay calm and realize the difference in mediums and not be jealous or freaked out or even worse, afraid that my four years of work would be meaningless because the movie is really good. Oh and by the way, it is really good.
So I popped three Excedrin, two benedril, and a half a zanex and asked my dad to come along for moral support. He spent the better half of his line waiting time going up to every perplexed indie rocker kid waiting in line and handed post cards out for the book to about half of the 400 people there. I was embarrassed as hell but hey, it’s dad, he’s my best friend, and as always my biggest fan. (I pretended I didn’t know him.)
Galkin and Cantor the filmmakers come up and introduced the film. Galkin actually picked me out of the crowd before the film (he had googled me, his explanation for knowing what I look like) and introduced himself, this made me feel great. We were not competing, we were peers. Great. Peers. Maybe I didn’t need the zanex after all.
He then proceeds to announce that there are some Pixies in the audience. My father reaches into his pocket on cue and pulls out another half a zanex before I could even ask for one, what can I say the man has my back. You see I had not spoken to them since they reunited. I had this luck of getting face time with them a year before any new things happened. I got such a close look at their childhoods, life during the initial run, but most thrilling, regular life after the initial run. My book is about this life. So to the movie.
The movie is about the reunion. That is what it is about. And to get down to brass tax, it is a very good piece of rock art. It is a slice of real rock life. The truth if I may be so bold, the truth about how unglamorous it can be, and how that doesn’t matter in the least. We love them, we love their music and the rest of it, as my father always says about my relationships with women “it is, what it is.”
Journalists have ALWAYS tried to over glamorize this band, I wrote the book in oral history format to show that you don’t need glamour to have true drama, true rock n roll, the truth WILL set you free. This film is a cathartic front row seat into the truth about these four people. It is revealing, it is at times very sad, and at times very funny. It is a simple film, elegant in its simplicity. It doesn’t try to do too much, and almost does too little because you want more. But in the end, in theatre, in film, in literature, a writer or director should always leave you wanting more, and you do.
This film is specific, it is focused and it is tight. Is it going to tell you why this band is the greatest band? No, is it going to tell you why these people work well together? GOD no, is it going to tell you how money, success and talent make you happy? No, because they don’t, they never do.
It shows you many many things, the most important of which are these: that there are two filmmakers here with a very honest story to tell, and a year in the life revisiting 4 people who changed all of ours in one way or another, who have since changed in many ways in their own right, and stayed the same in many ways. But in the end that same distance between them, rifts, and rivalries are probably what makes them rock together so hard.
When I was first interviewing them 4 years ago, I was struck by how it seemed that if they met for the first time now after all this time they would respect each other as individuals and care about each other.
That does come across in the film, they do care about each other, but like a brother or sister who you love dearly because you have been so close and so full of love, hate, anger, madness for so long that you don’t have much to talk about, you don’t even necessarily enjoy their company, but you love them, and you can do one thing with them, if they are real blood, you can do things like family reunions, talking about your parents, complaining about parents, and chastising bad habits. If they are not your not blood, and you know some songs, all’s you can do is play them. And they did, and Cantor and Galkin captured that, and they captured it well. Bravo.
I got home and my author copy of the book was there. I opened it up to the first page where Chas Banks their European road manager gives the Forward. My eyes fell upon his last words “life to the pixies.” He was reflecting on his read of the book, it is the story of their life and the lives of everyone that grew up with them around them, before them and after them. My book “Fool The World” covers their first life.
LoudQuietLoud Covers their second life and Galkin and Cantor captures this second coming. The film’s power, sadness, redemption, and rawness, reveals the final truth that rock stars grow up, that they can grow up, and that we should let them grow up. It might not be as slick as the magazines would have you believe, but it’s the truth and that’s what rock n roll is supposed to be about. Galkin and Cantor have brought us one step closer to accepting that.
We are lucky the Pixies let us in to this personal, human story. So I close with this thought. The main question at the screening talk after the film was “will the pixies record another album?” I think this is missing the point and the point of the film. To paraphrase John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what the Pixies can do for you, ask what you can do for the Pixies.”
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Friday, March 17, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
SXSW debut for Pixies documentary
By Christy Lemire
The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Twelve years after breaking up, the Pixies were more popular and influential than when they were together.
So filmmakers Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin knew they had the potential for a great documentary when the band announced they were reuniting for a world tour in 2004 — and it sold out within minutes.
The result is "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," which made its world premiere this week at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival.
The documentary provides astonishing access to four musicians who were known as much for their reclusiveness and infighting as they were for their unique sound: a mix of punk rock, surf guitar, screaming vocals and sometimes discordant harmonies that's impossible to classify.
Kurt Cobain admitted that when he wrote "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nirvana's first hit, he was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. Radiohead also has pointed to them as an influence, and Bono and David Bowie have praised them as one of the best bands ever.
"Steven and I both felt that, because they were so influential but also so underdocumented when they were around — there is virtually no intimate footage of the Pixies — we both felt there was a beautiful opportunity to actually document something intimate with this band that had such a mystique about them that was fascinating to us," said Galkin.
Cantor and Galkin followed the Boston-based band from its first hesitant rehearsal — where bassist Kim Deal can't recall how many times to sing the word "chained" at the end of "Hey" — to its thunderous final shows at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
They rehearse and perform such favorites as "Gouge Away," "U-Mass," "Bone Machine" and "Here Comes Your Man." And the way they sound, you'd never know they'd been apart.
After their 1992 breakup — which lead singer Charles Thompson announced on BBC Radio to the surprise of his bandmates — Deal formed the Breeders with her sister, Kelley, and went through rehab. Thompson launched a solo career using his nom de stage, Frank Black. Drummer David Lovering became a magician, and guitarist Joey Santiago wrote documentary scores.
Both Cantor and Galkin said they were surprised to find that the band members were "shockingly normal" — at first.
"Early on, they were much more regular people, and as the tour went on they became the Pixies, they became rock stars, they became more reclusive and they talked to each other less," Cantor said.
"We had less access in the middle of the tour. We had a lot in the beginning and a lot at the end," said Galkin. "We got some good stuff in Iceland, some good stuff in London."
"It's not that they cut off our access, they cut off access to everyone," Cantor said. "They didn't leave their rooms, and they'd read a lot."
"I think they very quickly slipped into the same roles they always played," Galkin added. "They haven't changed that much in 12 years."
At a party after the premiere, Santiago said he and the others let Cantor and Galkin in on intimate moments during the tour because they were "shooting a documentary and we knew they had to do that."
But he added: "I would bet that more than half of the bands don't hang out with each other that much and don't talk to each other that much. I mean, the only one I can think of is the Monkees."
As for seeing the film in front of a packed house, the drummer said "I was anxious before going tonight. I felt like I was doing a gig."
And he'll get that feeling again soon: Lovering said that, while they're not necessarily reuniting for good, the Pixies are planning to go on another European tour this summer.
Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company
STICK FIGURE PRODUCTIONS
Charles Thompson, aka Frank Black,
and Kim Deal in the documentary
"loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies."
STICK FIGURE PRODUCTIONS
Charles Thompson, aka Frank Black,
and Kim Deal in the documentary
"loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies."
© 2006 The Seattle Times Company
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1526380/03162006/story.jhtml
03.17.2006 6:00 AM EST
Pixies Film Captures Onstage Magic, Offstage Indifference
'LoudQUIETloud' follows influential alt-rockers on 2004 reunion tour.
They were ugly, beautiful, and then ugly all over again. They were obscure, influential, and then once again obscure. They were the Pixies and — thanks to a new documentary premiering this week at the South by Southwest Film Festival — they're being immortalized as one of the great contradictions in modern music.
"The film is called 'loudQUIETloud,' and that's kind of what it was," director Steven Cantor recently said. "The Pixies had a reunion tour in 2004, and we followed them around the whole tour, and they are four very remarkable people. Very different people from each other, in wildly different phases of their lives. Onstage there was this incredible camaraderie and chemistry, and they sounded fantastic.
"And offstage," he added, grinning, "they don't really talk to each other that much."
If you're unfamiliar with the names Charles Thompson, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering ... well ... you're probably in the majority. The Pixies hardly broke any sales records during their original 1986-1993 run, their music videos were rarely seen by anyone but insomniacs, and you'd be hard-pressed to find "Monkey Gone to Heaven" available at your next karaoke party. Reminiscent of other ahead-of-their-time acts like the Velvet Underground or Big Star, however, the people who did buy their albums went out and started up their own bands, and proceeded to rip them off with the greatest of reverence.
"I'm a huge Pixies fan," Cantor insisted, listing himself among a group of creatively minded admirers ranging from Modest Mouse to Queens of the Stone Age. "I heard they were getting back together, and my [co-director Matthew Galkin] and I were on the phone trying to get tickets. We were on the phone and were like, 'Wait, we gotta make this movie.'
"We called their manager and he was like, 'Yeah, there were 17 other people who sent in their proposals,' " the director sighed.
If you remember a band named Nirvana who built upon the "loud chorus/quiet verse/loud chorus" aesthetic with minor hits like "Smells Like Teen Spirit," then you know the Pixies. If you remember the key moment at the end of "Fight Club" when Edward Norton says, "You've met me at a very strange time in my life" while watching all of society collapsing around him, then you know the Pixies and their song "Where Is My Mind?" Indeed, if you've ever a heard a soft intro give way to a thunderous chorus in the last two decades, you've been touched by that band you've never heard of.
"I don't think documentaries should necessarily have a visual style that you impose on a subject," Cantor said of the simple stare of his camera's lens. "You just think about what the subject is going to be, and then come up with a style and look that will suit that topic."
For this particular project, that subject was the bandmembers' none-too-subtle disdain for each other, manifesting itself in a collection of love/hate moments that bring a double-meaning to the film's title. After their differences tore them apart in the early '90s, their solo projects were constantly met with questions about whether they'd ever reunite. When they finally did, Cantor and Galkin were there to capture the ugliness, the beauty and the noise that made them as contradictory as ever.
"Onstage, there was like this electric chemistry and fans going crazy and telling them 'Kim Deal is God' and 'Charles, I wanna have your babies,' " he said, referring to some of the footage that fuels the film. "They're just these rock gods. And offstage, and behind the scenes, they're very regular people just living their lives, each with their own struggles."
"There was pretty crazy tension," he continued. "Kim was trying to stay sober through the whole tour; she had insisted that it be a dry tour. Dave the drummer's father died, and that kind of made him go off the rocks and start drinking ... so that created some tension."
"Charles, Frank Black, the lead singer, he was kinda into his girlfriend, soon-to-be wife, who's pregnant now with their second baby, and Joey was doing a documentary," Cantor shook his head. "Not really in sync offstage, but amazing together."
Some things never change, and other things — like the Pixies' music — are better off that way. "There's no new stuff," Cantor said of classics like "Here Comes Your Man" and "Gouge Away" performed in the film. "It's all old stuff. They don't have a new album or anything."
After South by Southwest in Austin, the film is aiming for a major release that might help polish up the legacy of a band that history has largely forgotten. The music in "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies" is anything but steady; the love of their loyal fans, however, remains loud-loud-loud.
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— Larry Carroll
The Pixies in "loudQUIETloud: A Film About Pixies"
Photo: Stick Figure Productions
http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=16271&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
New behind-the-scene Pixies documentary details
Posted by aubin on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 2:00:01 PM (EST)
NME has the scoop on a new behind-the-scenes Pixies documentary set to premiere at SXSW in Austin, Texas later this week. Titled loudQuietloud: A film about the Pixies, the film features live footage from a series of post-reunion shows as well as backstage interviews with the band.
Director Steven Cantor who directed the film along with Matthew Galkin had this to say about what he discovered:
It was surprising to see how utterly human this band was, particularly in comparison to their idolised image,They were all coping with pretty standard mid-life issues, and meanwhile all these sold-out crowds were going crazy over them.
Not that they despise one another, they are just not the types of people who talk a lot, They would barely talk to each other in the van, get to the venue and go to their dressing rooms and warm up on their own, read or listen to music. And then when they got on stage, there was this electric energy and connection with each other and the audience.
Cantor also addressed the motivations behind the reunion saying: "I feel like 75 per cent of the reason for the reunion was for money, but the other 25 per cent was because of the fact that they're legends"
The film is the latest in a series of post-reunion releases from the band. The previous being the live DVD, Sell Out which was released last September.
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4630948&nav=1TjD
Documentary follows Pixies on reunion tour
AUSTIN Some fans believe that -- 12 years after breaking up -- the Pixies are more popular and influential than when they were together.
Filmmakers Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin knew they had the potential for a great documentary when the band announced they were reuniting for a world tour in 2004.
The result is "loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies," which made its world premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in Austin.
The documentary provides astonishing access to four musicians who were known as much for their reclusiveness and infighting as they were for their unique sound.
The band is known for its mix of punk rock, surf guitar, screaming vocals and sometimes discordant harmonies.
Kurt Cobain admitted that when he wrote "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nirvana's first hit, he was basically trying to rip off the Pixies.
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On the Net:
http://www.sxsw.com
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Interesting.
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Strange!
Hmmm, I've posted the same bloody AP stories a few times. Duh!
Mo of the same....
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=725744&page=2
http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=541b5146-2db7-434a-ae5a-54871dd41f38&k=17973&p=1
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/sns-ap-film-pixies-documentary,0,5621679.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds
http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/doco-charts-time-off-with-the-pixies/2006/03/16/1142098572618.html
http://www.cinematical.com/2006/03/25/sxsw-review-loudquietloud/
SXSW Review: loudQUIETloud
Posted Mar 25th 2006 3:01PM by Karina Longworth
Filed under: Documentary, Music & Musicals, SXSW
No rock band has ever consistantly exceeded expectations quite like Pixies. Formed by four dirt-poor Bostonians in 1986, the band released four albums, an extended EP and a handful of singles on 4AD (an English art rock label largely kept afloat by the inexplicable staying power of The Cocteau Twins), barely blipped the domestic charts whilst enjoying massive sucess overseas, headlined the Reading Festival in 1991, opened for U2 on the Zooropa tour in 1993, and disbanded later that year after lead Pixie Black Francis announced their breakup to the world on a radio interview, and then to his three bandmates via fax.
Though seemingly destined to drift off into obscurity, the band's long, slow comeback started almost immediately, as Kurt Cobain started telling anyone who would listen that Nirvana's breakout single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", was his blatant attempt to rip off a Pixies song. That simple endorsement had a lot of power; a quote on the band's record company website credits Cobain's admission with singlehandedly bringing about "the beginning of the end of counterculture." Hyperbolic, sure, but not necessarily inaccurate: by the end of the decade, when their early single "Where is My Mind" was becoming forever linked to the apparently archtypical modern male's emasculation-via-consumerism through its use in David Fincher's Fight Club, the quartet had easily become the biggest dead band of the 90s. I can personally attest to the fact that Pixies fanatacism was only stoked by the band's limited output – with only five records, there's nothing to do but listen to them all. A lot. In 1994, I played my cassette of Surfer Rosa until it wore out. Twice – and, of course, the seeming finality of the divorce.
But then, because irony is a virus that we cannot escape, and can only hope to contain, in the Spring of 2004 Pixies came back, for an almost-two-year, sold-out tour called – wait for it – Pixies Sell Out. loudQUIETloud, a film by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin which had its world premiere last week at SXSW, is about what happened next, and as concert films go, it's fairly phenomenal. Galkin and Cantor paint Pixies' tale as an epic romance that was doomed from the start; when the lovers reunite (for a host of reasons, but not one of them love), the end result is, much like the film itself, both spectacular and sad.
But then, because irony is a virus that we cannot escape, and can only hope to contain, in the Spring of 2004 Pixies came back, for an almost-two-year, sold-out tour called – wait for it – Pixies Sell Out. loudQUIETloud, a film by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin which had its world premiere last week at SXSW, is about what happened next, and as concert films go, it's fairly phenomenal. Galkin and Cantor paint Pixies' tale as an epic romance that was doomed from the start; when the lovers reunite (for a host of reasons, but not one of them love), the end result is, much like the film itself, both spectacular and sad.
Those grown weary by the latest flood of documentaries will be happy to note that there's not a lot of fat to cut here. We jump right in on the band members, days before their first rehearsal in over ten years. After the break-up, Francis (born Charles Thompson) went on to release a bevy of solo albums under the moniker Frank Black; the first and second produced a semi-successful single each, but later efforts drifted off into country-tinged monotony. When we pop in on him early in the film Charles (as he's referred to throughout) is living on a sleepy, farmy Pacific Northwest piece of land with his pregnant girlfriend and her son. Far from any kind of madding crowd, Charles is casually shopping a new solo record and waiting for his divorce to go through so he can embark on his second marriage. Unglamorous as it all is, compared to the other Pixies, Charles is arguably the best off. Drummer David Lowering, when we first meet him, is sleeping on couches and "persu[ing] such hobbies as magic and metal detecting." Guitarist Joey Santiago (who essentially invented the standard alt-rock dynamic range of the 90s) was, as he says, "eeking it out", supporting his wife and two children on Pixies residuals and the occasional film scoring gig. In one way or another, all the Pixie boys needed this tour – Charles was looking, on some level, to bridge the gap between his personas of Black Francis and Frank Black; David and Joey were looking to bridge the gaps between their debt and the wallets. The single Pixie girl, however, did not.
One night, while the Pixies were still together, bassist Kim Deal went out drinking with Tanya Donnelly, then of 4AD band Throwing Muses, and by the end of the night the girls had decided to record "the ultimate disco album." Instead, they rounded up a couple of other female instrumentalists (including Josephine Whiggs and violinist Carrie Bradley) and the drummer from Slint, called themselves The Breeders and recorded Pod. If the name of the group was a clear knock at Kim's day job ("pixie" being Cold War-era slang for gay, "breeder", for straight), the record itself did nothing to dilute what Thompson would eventually admit to being a threat. For people who thought the Kim-penned "Gigantic" to be the highlight of Pixies' output to that point (and there were a lot of us), Pod seemed to point towards a kind of musical promise that Pixies proper seemed unlikely to fulfill. When Deal returned to the Pixies in 1990 to lay down tracks for their fourth record, Bossanova, Charles allegedly "punished" her by limiting her contribution to, eventually, essentially that of session musician. By the band's final record, the brutally underrated Trompe le Monde, Deal was still technically a Pixie, but Charles was writing all the songs, and her vocal presence had been whittled down to almost nothing.
Though specific incidents aren't named, when pressed on camera, several band members blame problems between Charles and Kim as the final factor in the band's demise. It certainly couldn't have been easy for the egomaniacal Charles to agree to get back on stage with her – after all, in the post-breakup decade, Deal has seen her personal myth balloon to the point of surpassing that of the band as a whole. Even if you've never heard a Pixies song, if you turned on a television or radio at all in 1993 or 1994, it's very likely that you have had some exposure to The Breeders. Their second full-length album (their first as a "real", full time band, with Kim's twin sister Kelley replacing Donnelly on lead guitar), Last Splash, spawned three hit singles; The Guardian branded the biggest of those hits, "Canonball", as "probably the only song taunting the Marquis de Sade to get repeated play on MTV". Though no one who turned on the television during the career peak of Marilyn Manson could say that with a straight face, there's no question that "Cannonball"'s massive popularity was gloriously, triumphantly weird, and it made Kim and Kelley very unlikely stars. After opening for Nirvana, and proving the highlight (if not the official headliner) of the 1994 Lollapalooza tour, The Breeders fell apart in late 1994, when Kelley was busted for received a FedEx package full of heroin and a court ordered her to enter rehab. Kim had her own addiction struggles, but she continued to record and play shows throughout the 90s. Shortly after she and Kelley reformed The Breeders in 2002 with a few ex-members of LA punk band Fear, Kim finally took steps to sober up. When the Sell Out tour began, she was one year out of rehab; a poignant but singularly odd moment in loudQUIETloud comes when Deal's mother says that her 42-year-old daughter needs the rock n'roll reunion because it'll "keep her out of trouble".
Deal's struggles to find non-alcoholic beer whilst touring Northern Europe aside, at the beginning, at least, she's the best poster girl possible for why this tour was potentially a good idea. After their first warm up gig, Deal runs backstage to submerge her hands, blistered and bleeding, under ice. Her face an incredible rotating model of exhilaration and fear, she looks around the room at her fellow bandmates and exclaims, "They were freaking out out there ... they were freaking ME out." But whatever the reaction of the crowd does to galvanize the Pixies early on, the thrill soon starts to fade. In between shows, the boy Pixies retreat to their individual bus bunks and hotel rooms, and Kim, to the motorhome she has rented so as to be able to accommodate Kelley, her human security blanket, for the length of the tour. David pops pills to shakily deal with the death of his dad; Joey iChats with his wife and kids; Kim records new Breeders demos on a four-track and goes out of her way to accommodate her rabid fans; and in one of the film's most incredible scenes, Charles verbally follows along to self-help actualization tapes. The appeal of a shirtless, obese rock star closing his eyes and chanting, "I am a good person. I am cute", cannot be underestimated; whether he's actually taking steps to better himself or just screwing with the cameraman is for debate.
Charles also gives a lot of interviews over the course of the film, and in one he hints that he's dying to get the other three Pixies into a recording studio. This is a sentiment that Charles never seems to share with his band members, and it's unclear whether he's making it up for the sake of the publicity, or if he's confiding in the reporter something that he can't bring himself to say to his bandmates. It becomes evident that we're watching the process of professional entertainers – even though they're working in a milieu in which spontaneity is ostensibly part of the allure, these guys are able to turn it on and off at the stop of a dime. And as the reunion trudges along – what was originally scheduled to be a few North American dates, culminating with the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in the spring of 2004, ends up ballooning into a world tour over the course of about 18 months – a deep, unspoken sadness sets in. By night, the Pixies are rock n' roll superheroes, traveling the globe to valiantly rescue millions of fans from the doldrums of what is by now a highly corporatized alterna-scene; by day, they're just four surly co-workers with very little to say to one another. It's a living, for sure, but for a fan, it's gut-wrenching to see how little life goes into it.
As I was writing this review, an eerily applicable Google News Clip appeared above my mail: Pixies Planning One More Summer Tour. In the article, Santiago tells the reporter that there's no new record to support, and no foreseeable new Pixies material on the horizon. If loudQUIETloud gives the impression that Pixies, undoubtedly a national treasure to those of us who care about such things, have reduced themselves to prostitutes, then it's up to the band themselves to prove that impression wrong. Here's hoping this next tour is the final sell out.
http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=8754
LOUDQUIETLOUD: A FILM ABOUT THE PIXIES
by Mark Bell
(2006-03-28)
2006, Un-rated, 100 minutes
Director: Steven Cantor & Matthew Galkin
Cast: Charles Thompson, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, David Lovering
This isn't a VH1: Behind the Music episode, and it's also not an exhaustive biography of one of the greatest bands to come out of the 90's, the Pixies. Instead it is a time-capsule of a moment in time when, about 12 years after abruptly breaking up, the band re-united for a brief "warm-up" tour in an effort to find out if their reunion even had merit anymore.
The answer, as the film shows, is a resounding "yes." As large venues sell out in minutes, the stage is set for a beloved band to rise to the occasion or trip over themselves. Proving themselves human, they both stumble and astound as band members find their old grooves while attempting to stay clear of the problems that broke them up in the first place.
The film offers many intimate moments of a band in re-build, from the recently rehab-free Kim Deal trying her best to keep it together on the road (and bringing along twin sister Kelley for support) to guitarist Joey Santiago's attempts at fulfilling a previous obligation to score a film as he tours. The emotional core of the film, however, has more to do with drummer David Lovering's ebb and flow as he goes from being magician living off of residuals checks to full-time rock icon. It's a re-birth for David more than anyone, it seems, and amid personal tragedy and the rigors of touring he proves himself to be the most human as he grapples with it all.
The only thing the film doesn't offer is a full explanation of why the band broke up in the first place or why they decided to get back together. Sure, singer Charles "Black Francis / Frank Black" Thompson does attempt to explain that they broke up because it's like being around anyone for too long, you grow to hate them for any subtle thing they do (and it's a general concensus among the band that it was issues between Kim and Charles that killed the band), but you never see Charles or Kim attempt to come to any resolution regarding that situation that, as the documentary plays out, isn't necessarily gone. As for the reason for the reunion, the ugly answer is "money," and when David and Joey are both straightforward about being strapped for cash, it doesn't really seem like they got back together for any other reason. As a fan, you want there to be a bigger reason.
At the same time, like Lloyd Dobler taking back Diane at the end of Say Anything, it doesn't really matter. The Pixies are back together, the music is as unbelievable as ever and what more could you ask for? Oh, whether they'll record new music? Yeah, no comment.
>>> See what Pixies band members Joey Santiago and David Lovering had to say about the film after the premiere at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival: loudQUIETloud Q & A with the Pixies
 
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Carl, you're a madman! Thanks for posting, would probably never find time to read it otherwise...
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I know, it's a bit sad, really!! I guess I'm thinking along the lines of preserving these articles for the archieves, when the links go dead, or whatever. Maybe I should just get a life!! :)
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Posted - 03/28/2006 : 20:57:33
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NO!!!! We need stuff like this. Plus, I'm sure it quite helps Soren out. Soon we will have a db for this stuff and you'll be able to post it right in there.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." |
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Posted - 03/29/2006 : 05:29:48
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Kewl. :)
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The good thing in addition to the reunion of course is that they were real. I couldn't see too many bands being authentic like the way it sounds like they're in the documentary. I think that would be a personally hard thing to do and I respect them for that.
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It's showing at the Tribeca Film Festival:
http://comingsoon.net/news/indietopnews.php?id=14212
Two popular alternative rock bands also get the rockumentary treatment: loudQUIETloud, documenting the reformation of Pixies in 2004, and Tell Me Do You Miss Me, chronicling the last six months of the New York alt-rock band Luna, as they go their separate ways. Frank Black and Kim Deal from Pixies also appear in Follow My Voice: The Music of Hedwig, about the making of a benefit album to help the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the first gay-lesbian high school in the country.
http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1186929_1_0_,00.html
Sundance faves like Wordplay and Madeinusa are on tap, as well as a wealth of music docs, from the Pixies' loudQUIETloud to the Wu Tang Clan's Rock the Bells.
Also at the Deep Focus Film Festival:
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/features-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/04/30/20060430-F1-00.html
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| loudQUIETloud looks like it is making the film festival circuit. There is a site up http://www.loudquietloud.com that has all of the scheduled screenings etc...FYI |
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| Quick update on premier at Tribeca: Joey and David were special guests!! And the latest news straight from the source is they aren't talking about a new album... |
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It also showed at the Independant Film Festival of Boston:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/04/16/giant_steps/
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/04/16/giant_steps/?page=2
Aside from ''Not a Photograph: The Mission of Burma
Story" ( codirected by Boston native David Kleiler Jr.), another music
documentary has a local angle. ''loudQUIETloud: A Film About the
Pixies" is, as the subtitle suggests, a biopic of the famous
Massachusetts band.
More Tribeca:
http://www.nysun.com/article/31436
Claude Chabrol teams up with Isabelle Huppert for "Comedy of Power." But if you
prefer music to mise-en-scene, the glut of rock docs continues full blast with movies
about the Pixies ("loudQUIETloud"), the Wu-Tang Clan ("Rock the Bells), the Iranian
music industry ("Sounds of Silence"), and the U.S. Air Guitar Championship ("Air
Guitar Nation").
http://filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/0/a8c1a7793d80d1dd882571640012c8cd?OpenDocument
...Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago
sneaking into the back of the theater at the documentary of the band's reunion tour, loudQUIETloud...
In 2004, a dozen years after one of indie rock’s most storied bands broke up amid a welter of bad blood and ego, the Pixies reunited
for a tour received with the enthusiasm of desert wanderers being offered a splash of cold water. loudQUIETloud (  ) is the lo-
fi record of that tour – which starts out at a small Minneapolis club and ends in a raucous Manhattan ballroom – touching on a
litter of animosities along the way. What the film brilliantly records is the genial tedium of touring and the importance of these
lucrative gigs to the bandmates who have mostly struggled in the post-Pixies world. The foursome is fantastically hermetic,
communicating best via their instruments. Best to watch is bassist Kim Deal, with her infectiously brassy laugh and ever-present
cigarettes – a working-class muse if there ever was one, and the sole Pixie who truly seems to appreciate the second chance they’d
all been given.
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-tribeca0504.artmay04,0,5243117.story?track=mostviewedlink
NEW YORK -- The Tribeca Film Festival, happening now in Lower Manhattan,
features documentaries on the Wu Tang Clan, the Pixies, the Ramones and
other well-known musical acts.
http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2NjcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY5MzAxMDUmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0
A film crew followed The Pixies, another long-lost band, as it embarked on its
reunion tour. While the documentary, "loudQuietloud," was apparently produced
independent of the band, its director summed up a critical point about music
documentaries when he told Billboard.com: "It was surprising to see how utterly
human this band was, particularly in comparison to their idolized image."
Also screened at the Hopkins Film Festival:
http://www.jhunewsletter.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/05/07/445cd71708b3a
Weighty cultural statements, however, should always come with a little kick, and if
possible, some rock music in the background. Viewers were treated to an
intimate look at the long-estranged Pixies in Stephen Cantor and Matthew
Galkin's documentary loudQUIETloud and found out what happens when Zombie
horror, modern malaise, and `80s nostalgia collide in Ryan Graham's Livelihood.
http://sev.prnewswire.com/music/20060505/NYF03505052006-1.html
At a private screening of the heralded documentary loudQUIETloud, recently hosted by EliasArts in New York City as a prelude to
today's announcement, Tag Gross commented, "Elias' featured artists, together with our full time staff, offer the most solid
credentials and diverse levels of capabilities anywhere. There's a synergy and collaborative creative spirit at EliasArts that is hard
to beat." |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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http://www.columbusdispatch.com/weekender/weekender.php?story=dispatch/2006/05/04/20060504-W4-00.html
Documentary takes ‘affectionate’
peek at Pixies
Thursday, May 04, 2006
FRANK GABRENYA
Recent rock documentaries
have shown that there is no we in
band.
Some of the Ramones detested
one another; Metallica thrives on
internal dissension. And the
Pixies, beloved punk rockers of
yore, barely converse offstage.
That’s a plot thread in
loudQUIETloud: A Film About
the Pixies, which will be screened
at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m.
Sunday during the second Deep
Focus Film Festival at the Arena
Grand, 170 W. Nationwide Blvd.
The film by directors Steve
Cantor and Matthew Galkin
follows the band on its 2004 reunion tour (which included a
Columbus stop, although that probably isn’t in the film), filling in gaps
of history going back into the ’80s. The group disbanded in 1992, as
the four members — Charles Thompson (aka Frank Black), Kim Deal,
David Lovering and Joey Santiago — explored solo avenues, with
only Thompson/Black finding much success.
Overall, the film is described in a Variety review as "intimate" and
"affectionate."
JONATHAN FURMANSKI
The Pixies, clockwise from upper left:
Charles Thompson, David Lovering, Kim
Deal and Joey Santiago
It's showing as part of the Seattle International Film Festival. Details here:
http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19667&FID=13
http://www.moviecitynews.com/Notepad/2006/060514_pr.html
This year's line-up of Face the Music films cover a wide range of musical styles
and approaches, highlighting celebrated artists including: The Pixies; The Police;
Leonard Cohen; Harry Nilsson; JJ Cale; Bjork; and George Michael as well as
incredible overlooked masters and undiscovered talents in Brazil, West Africa,
Iceland and Turkey. |
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mcil
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/15/2006 : 13:32:44
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Just found out it's being shown at the international film festival in Edinburgh in August - day off school looks on the cards. Don't know if it's already been mentioned, I'm too lazy to read all the articles at the moment.
"Your Bone's Got a Little Machine..." |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2006 : 10:05:09
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www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2006/05/19/Arts/loudquietloud.Probes.Pixies.Split-2012380.shtml?
'loudQUIETloud' probes Pixies split
Casey McConahay
Issue date: 5/19/06 Section: Arts
Alternative rock suffered a critical setback
with the 1993 split of pioneering quartet the
Pixies. Notable for both their inventive style
and far-reaching influence - Kurt Cobain used
to be an enthusiastic fan - the break-up of the
band seemed to herald progressive rock's
impending descent from mainstream
prominence.
Rather than fading into obscurity as little more
than a footnote to rock history, though, the
Pixies legacy was sustained with the
assistance of a healthy underground buzz and fueled by the fervent sort of
cult following that allowed the band's 2004 reunion tour to sell out in four
minutes. That same tour is the subject of "loudQUIETloud," a new
documentary by directors Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin.
The documentary is an intimate portrayal of the seminal alternative rock
band whose brief but brilliant career ultimately fragmented under the
stress and strain of member in-fighting. Cantor and Galkin do not tip-toe
around the break-up topic. The question of why the Pixies parted ways
frames the film's introduction and is addressed frequently in the span of
the film, often with the vague imprecision that seems to characterize any
conflict considered in hindsight.
There is a brief "what they have been up to" montage. Vocalist and
guitarist Black Francis, who formerly called himself Charles Thomas, has
circled the solo circuit as Frank Black; bassist Kim Deal toured with the
Breeders before checking into rehab; drummer David Lovering has
developed an affinity for metal detectors and magic; and guitarist Joey
Santiago started a band with his wife and is scoring, ironically, a
documentary.
The real story, however, is the tour. The tour becomes the band's
biography in microcosm, a lens of unabashed honesty through which one
can escape the smokescreen that formerly concealed the elusive band.
Through the tour, we see the artists as they really are - talented men and
women, but mere mortals, nonetheless. And it is all here: Black spinning
self-help cassettes, Deal's battles with alcoholism and Lovering's several
moments of Spinal Tap-inspired insanity while the drummer struggles
with demons of his own. Indeed, Lovering's dependence on a cocktail of
red wine and Valium culminates in what is perhaps the most honest
intervention ever captured on camera, and all of this augmented with a
tender and poignant production that challenges the deification of rock
stars without ever devaluing its subjects to comic rock star caricatures.
As the Pixies play to packed houses across the United Kingdom, United
States and Canada, then, to crowds that raise signs reading "Kim Deal
is God," the film adopts a tone of elegiac facetiousness that is at once
both tragic and heartwarming. Relying upon simple but gripping
cinematography, the picture gets more purchase from glances and
gestures than most scripted movies get from pages of dialogue - a sigh
from Deal as she reads a book given to her by a fan, which packs an
impressive but subdued punch, as does the single instance where Black
pushes aside a camera when the conflict born of Lovering's addictions
has reached its breaking point.
In the end, Cantor and Galkin present the Pixies as what they are - a
group of musicians who have experienced a measure of commercial
success and critical acclaim, but both in the past tense. The challenge the
film depicts is not only how to regain bygone glories, but also how to
progress in one's individual development when handicapped by the
remnants of an overbearing and prominent past. "LoudQuietloud"
presents four such stories with a quiet profundity that makes the journey
all the more compelling.
Media Credit: Courtesy of
Stickfigure Productions |
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kfs
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 05/19/2006 : 10:18:50
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WOW!
Hey, Carl...Thanks for posting things like this. I would never get to see them otherwise! |
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Pixies doc to premiere at SXSW
